Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers
Digital pinboard business cutting 15% of workforce as it invests heavily in AI
French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit
Prosecutors’ announcement comes amid a hardening of European attitudes to social media firms
Why TikTok’s first week of American ownership was a disaster
App endured a major outage and user backlash over perceived censorship. Now it’s facing an inquiry by the California governor and an ascendant competitor
How the left can win back the internet – and rise again
In the final part of this series, we look at how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide, says digital media academic Robert Topinka
What to know about the jury trials of Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube
Hundreds of parents, teens and school districts have claimed social media is intentionally addictive and harmful
How the right won the internet
In the second part of our series on digital politics, we look at how online provocateurs have advanced extreme political ideas – and watched them seep into the mainstream, says digital media academic Robert Topinka
We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back?
My use of mobile phones has been compulsive – has it been for better or for worse?
Can you guess our screen time? A priest, pensioner, tech CEO and teenager reveal all
From the person who scrolls on the toilet to the one without any social media, what do their digital habits tell us?
What the US TikTok takeover is already revealing about new forms of censorship
It’s not what we can or cannot say that matters – rather, it’s whether what we say can get any visibility at all under the US-specific algorithm, says academic Paolo Gerbaudo
How liberals lost the internet
In the first part of our series on digital politics, we look at how centrists have lost ground fighting disinformation – when the real battle is over emotion and attention, says digital media academic Robert Topinka
UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime
Exclusive: Branch of Iranian software company TSIT, which makes Gap Messenger, is registered in Sussex
Millions created deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse
Analysis finds at least 150 channels on messaging app that have distributed AI-generated images and video
‘This can’t be left to individual families’: how social media ban could affect under-16s
Parents, teachers and young people share their views on whether social media restrictions would work in the UK
As most TV viewers tune in via broadband, will 2034 signal the death of Freeview?
The aerial-accessed service has a fast-dwindling audience but when exactly to switch the platform off is proving highly divisive
UK media groups should be allowed to opt out of Google AI Overviews, CMA says
News organisations hope proposals will increase leverage to get paid if content is used in AI summaries