Voters are gearing up to go to the polls in the consequential US midterm elections. What’s at stake? What are the key races to …

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Meta was ordered to pay $25bn (£18.6bn) by a judge in New Mexico after a two-week trial earlier this year which found it had spent years lying to the public about how it handled Facebook user data.

“The lies extend beyond Facebook’s data practices as well,” the judge said, adding they went to “the heart of Facebook’s core business practices”.

Meta’s head lawyer CJ Mahoney said the ruling made it “all but impossible to do business in the state of New Mexico”. The company intends to appeal, which Mahoney says will be successful.

New Mexico’s lawsuit stemmed from the role of Meta in what became known as the Cambridge Analytica scandal and New Mexico had also accused the company of intentionally misleading the public on how it benefitted from content that included hate speech.

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With the advent of OnlyFans, pornographic content has become a fixture of mainstream social media. But the influence of the adult entertainment industry on internet culture arguably began decades ago. On this episode, Matt and Marianna are joined by journalist Patricia Nilsson who has reported extensively on the secretive personalities who control ‘Big Porn’ and the business model behind it. We discuss the revolutionary data tracking practices first implemented by so-called tube sites to monetise attention, the regulatory trade-off between safety and privacy, and why anonymity online may be leading to more extreme pornography fuelled by our most primal instincts.

Top Comment is hosted by Marianna Spring and Matt Shea.

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Donald Trump says it’s “largely true” that the US-Israel war in Iran was responsible for sweeping Republican losses in the US midterm elections.

His comments come after US Vice-President, JD Vance, said in an social media post “the reason we lost is the war.”

The President has said he has no plans for immediate strikes on Iran after the vote, but the region remains on alert for any further military action.

The BBC’s International Editor, Jeremy Bowen – alongside colleagues from the United States and BBC Persian – provides analysis of what the midterm results mean for the war and where things might go from here.

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In a compelling new interview, veteran investigative reporter John North recounts his unforgettable experience of witnessing the …

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