Facebook launches ‘clear history’ tool – but it won’t delete anything
Feature ‘disconnects’ data from a user’s account and shows extent of tracking apparatus
Big tech firms need to stop reducing LGBT+ people to their sex lives
From demonetising videos to porn-filled searches, internet platforms are on the wrong side of the issue, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson
The weaponisation of information is mutating at alarming speed
Countries and companies are lining up to enter the disinformation business, says Chatham House fellow Sophia Ignatidou
Jada Pinkett Smith: ‘The word “wife”: it’s a golden cage, swallow the key’
She put her film career on hold and let husband Will Smith become a megastar. Now Jada Pinkett Smith’s candid chat show is opening up truthful conversations around kitchen tables everywhere
Behind the Screen review – inside the social media sweatshops
Sarah T Roberts’s vital new study demonstrates how online content moderation is a global industry that operates on the back of human exploitation
AI can read your emotions. Should it?
Advertisers, tech giants and border forces are using mind-reading software to read and respond to our moods – whether we like it or not
Johnson’s Facebook PMQs show how politicians can bypass scrutiny
Unless traditional media refuse to play into No 10’s idea of sanitised broadcasts, new approach may become a trend
Facebook admits contractors listened to users’ recordings without their knowledge
Company says ‘human review’ of audio conversations on Messenger has been ‘paused’
Facebook could tackle fake news but chooses not to, regulator says
ACCC chairman Rod Sims says Facebook should have removed the bogus death tax claims in circulation during the May federal election
Facebook denies giving contradictory evidence to parliament
Committee chairman suggested staff knew Cambridge Analytica had misused data before Guardian revelation
No Logo at 20: have we lost the battle against the total branding of our lives?
Twenty years on from the book that analysed the growing political power of ‘superbrands’
F Off review – all rise for the people vs Mark Zuckerberg
The National Youth Theatre’s dynamic and maximalist meditation on social media puts the Facebook CEO on trial – and makes him tap dance
Knives being sold via Facebook without any age check
Recent UK law bans online sellers sending knives to homes unless buyer verified as 18+
Social media is now a dangerous space for public servants – they are being locked out of modern life
The restrictions on public servants were nicknamed after me. This week’s high court ruling is troubling
It’s time for tighter regulation of how Facebook and Google use our data
Big tech’s power has reached a tipping point. Governments must set some ground rules