Obscure pro-Brexit group spends tens of thousands on Facebook ads
Britain’s Future has spent £88,000 on pro-Brexit ads despite Facebook transparency promises
Facebook rolls out fact-checking operation in UK
Social network brings in independent charity in attempt to tackle misinformation
What are social media companies doing about suicidal posts?
Rapper CupcakKe was hospitalised this week after worrying tweets, highlighting the increasing frequency of posts that need urgent responses
Older people more likely to share fake news on Facebook, study finds
Researchers suggest over-65s may lack skills to determine veracity of online news
The Guardian view on the politics of street confrontation: a dangerous trend
Editorial: Brexiters’ casual denigration of remainers as ‘traitors’ and ‘enemies of the people’ has helped fertilise political ground where violent extremism grows
Apple reportedly hires Facebook critic in privacy role
Sandy Parakilas, who worked at Facebook before opposing its use of personal data, ‘to work on data protection’
‘ZuckTalks’: Facebook founder’s 2019 personal challenge is to host public discussions
Last year he focused on ‘fixing’ Facebook. Now Mark Zuckerberg plans to host talks about technology’s future in society
Why all work and no play makes for millennial burnout
Anne Helen Petersen’s article on ‘errand paralysis’ hit a nerve, says Guardian columnist Dawn Foster
Together we can thwart the big-tech data grab. Here’s how
Our lives, online and off, depend upon decentralising power on the internet, says the Guardian columnist John Harris
Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine – review
A righteous polemic depicting the likes of Amazon as part of a military conspiracy just doesn’t hold water
Facebook’s burnt-out moderators are proof that it is broken
Despite employing a small army of contractors to monitor posts, it’s clear the company is no longer fit for purpose
‘Resign from Facebook’: experts offer Mark Zuckerberg advice for 2019
The CEO sets himself a personal challenge every new year. But after a bruising 12 months, what should he do next?
Business own goals: 2018’s worst corporate blunders
From #MeToo claims (categorically denied) to the most inflated bonuses
The growth of internet porn tells us more about ourselves than technology
The actual size of the sex industry online is difficult to estimate, but it is sophisticated and, in some senses, more honest than Google or Facebook
Instagram update: change to horizontal scrolling prompts online uproar
Picture-sharing platform retracts horizontal-scrolling feature within an hour of ‘mistaken’ rollout to users