Inside the Social Network: Facebook’s Difficult Year review – thumbs down! As if bewitched by their level of access, the BBC ditched critical distance, rolled over and let out one giant cheer for the global techno-oligarchy. Unfriend!
‘Breathtaking arrogance’: senators grill Facebook in combative hearing over Libra currency Banking committee questions Facebook on its Libra project, while the House will later take aim at Google, Apple and Amazon
How to survive the fake news about cancer The internet is awash with ads for costly but bogus treatments – and claims that scientists are suppressing a cure for the disease
Money’s no object for Facebook, so hit it where it hurts When a £4bn fine can be shrugged off with a share price rise, normal rules no longer apply
Facebook to be fined $5bn for Cambridge Analytica privacy violations – reports The $5bn fine would be the largest ever levied by the Federal Trade Commission against a technology company
France hits back at US over tax on digital giants US has said it will investigate planned levy on firms such as Amazon and Facebook
Facebook is ripe for exploitation – again – in 2020 Facebook claims to have cleaned up its act. But the platform remains vulnerable to the same sorts of divisive propaganda
Meet the millennials pretending to be baby boomers on Facebook Online, you can be anyone. So why are millennials choosing to roleplay as baby boomers?
Lawyers are now free to cherrypick defamatory Facebook comments, looking for nuggets of gold Social media comments are an online free-for-all. After the Dylan Voller case, media organisations have the impossible task of stemming the tide
Facebook ads funded by ‘dark money’ are the right’s weapon for 2020 The right and conservative media are using the untraceable ads to push a rightwing agenda and get Donald Trump re-elected
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp hit by media messaging outage Facebook and Instagram report being ‘back at 100%’ after all three platforms were malfunctioning throughout the day
Google and Facebook under scrutiny over UK ad market dominance Competition watchdog to investigate potential abuse of power and control of user data
‘Way ahead of the field’: inside Trump’s unprecedented social media campaign Donald Trump spent more than $11.1m on Facebook and Google ads alone in the first six months of 2019
Libra: US Congress asks Facebook to pause development Legislators say they need time to investigate cryptocurrency and its potential impact
Cash request from a Facebook ‘friend’ left me £300 out of pocket I was defrauded by a hacker posing as someone I knew who said he needed help