Facebook are ‘morally bankrupt liars’ says New Zealand’s privacy commissioner John Edwards calls out social media giant after Christchurch attack for refusing to accept responsibility for harm
Facebook is asking to be regulated but wants to choose how Three years on from the US election, tech firms are seeking rules that won’t hit their profits
Plan to crack down on social media firms is ‘massive step’, say MPs White paper proposes making executives liable for harmful content on their platforms
Inquiry launched into data use from no-deal Brexit ads on Facebook Investigation follows revelations of Lynton Crosby firm running ad campaign calling voters to lobby MPs
Online harms white paper: could regulation kill innovation? Government wants UK to be safest place to go online and also best place to grow a digital business
Social media bosses could be liable for harmful content, leaked UK plan reveals Long-awaited government white paper proposes regulator to enforce duty of care and fine offenders
Australian election: Facebook restricts foreign ‘political’ ads but resists further transparency Facebook will not be rolling out transparency features it introduced in the UK, US, EU, India, Israel and Ukraine
Australia passes social media law penalising platforms for violent content Labor supports legislation in response to Christchurch shooting that threatens jail for executives, despite media companies’ concerns
Hundreds of millions of Facebook records exposed on public servers – report Material discovered on Amazon cloud servers in latest example of Facebook letting third parties extract user data
IMF warning might turn government attention to big tech Threat to innovation could spark action against giants such as Facebook and Google
IMF warns that tech giants stifle innovation and threaten stability Fund report calls for profits to be targeted by a tougher international tax regime
Street battle: the activists fighting to save their neighbourhood from the tech giants Facebook, Google and Amazon have not just colonised the internet: their hubs, campuses and offices are taking over huge sections of cities around the world. But campaigners from New York to Toronto and Berlin are fighting back
Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to fix the internet. Don’t take him seriously The Facebook founder’s proposals for how to regulate the social media platform are self-serving and cynical
Why am I seeing this?: New Facebook tool to demystify news feed Facebook attempts to assure users it’s not spying on them with their phone’s mic
Facebook considering hiring editors to pick quality news for users Mark Zuckerberg also said he is weighing up paying publishers for use of their journalism