#Hashtag10: the best hashtag fails in a decade
The ‘funny little hack’ started a decade ago with #barcamp, and now 125m of them are shared daily on Twitter alone – but not without a few misfires
Mary Beard abused on Twitter over Roman Britain’s ethnic diversity
Classicist says her assertion that there was at least some diversity under Roman rule led to ‘torrent of aggressive insults’
City of Ghosts director Matthew Heineman: ‘Imagine seeing people crucified – every day’
Their families have been killed, they live in hiding, but a brave group of Syrians continue to defy Islamic State by reporting its atrocities to the world. The director of a new documentary explains how he told their shocking stories
Boris Johnson praises Donald Trump’s tweets for ‘engaging people’
Foreign secretary suggests he might like to follow US president’s approach to Twitter, saying it has gripped imaginations
Thousand year stare: the meme that imagines it’s 3017
We live in turbulent times, so people are looking to the future – a thousand years hence, to be precise
Facebook and Twitter are being used to manipulate public opinion – report
Nine-country study finds widespread use of social media for promoting lies, misinformation and propaganda by governments and individuals
Pope gifs and ice-cream jokes – how to get blocked by Trump on Twitter
The president likes to dish it out via social media, but it seems he can’t take it, with author Stephen King joining the list of those #BlockedByTrump
Millennial ‘influencers’ who are the new stars of web advertising
Beauty vloggers and cult celebrities are being courted by luxury brands
The story behind the fake Manchester attack victims
After the bombing, several posts of fake victims went viral. We look at the disturbing trend that keeps fooling social media
How to be a vlogger: a guide for wannabe YouTubers
Can you create a bubbly, cheeky two-dimensional persona that hides the emptiness of your life? Enjoy this careers service-style primer
When tweeters attack: why do readers send authors their bad reviews?
Social media have made it easy to let novelists know directly when their work has disappointed – but why do so many people want to do so?
Environmentalism used to be about defending the wild – not any more
We’re domesticating areas instead of protecting them. Living without technology I’ve found my place in the natural world – and this path could be our salvation
Mean stream: how YouTube prank channel DaddyOFive enraged the internet
A US couple have lost custody of their children after featuring them in prank videos online. They’re not the first to go further than they probably should have …
JK Rowling’s ego akin to Kim Kardashian’s, says Joanna Trollope
City of Friends author claims Harry Potter creator’s ‘insatiable desire’ to air opinions on Twitter is threat to literary industry
A moment that changed me: refusing to let disability silence me, and blogging
At 15 I was scared and isolated. Seven years later I’m grateful to my younger self for taking the advice of a teacher and finding a voice just when it mattered most