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Instagram update: change to horizontal scrolling prompts online uproar

Picture-sharing platform retracts horizontal-scrolling feature within an hour of ‘mistaken’ rollout to users

Sir Martin Sorrell: Facebook row hasn’t deterred advertisers

Ex-WPP chief says marketers are turning to Instagram and predicts more digital growth

It’s complicated: Facebook’s terrible 2018

Privacy scandals, congressional hearings, and PR disasters: a timeline of a long and difficult year for Mark Zuckerberg

Yuletide log-off: are people really taking a break from Twitter over Christmas?

Arguments around the family Christmas table may make up for the lack of social media bashing

Our Cambridge Analytica scoop shocked the world. But the whole truth remains elusive

The inside story of our award-winning investigation into the political consulting firm and its use of Facebook profiles• Read our other top stories from 2018

Why Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s ‘adult in the room’, may pay the price for its failings

After months of revelations about the firm, the executive is being talked of as a sacrifice, not founder Mark Zuckerberg

Snapchat changes specs to look past the iPhone generation

The app wants to distance itself from its rivals’ troubles, but needs more of their revenues

Is 2019 the year you should finally quit Facebook?

Deleting your Facebook account isn’t a bad New Year resolution – the company has proven yet again it violated public trust

Facebook contractors faced Christmas ultimatum: accept wage offer or lose jobs

Dispute between subcontracting firm and workers demanding better conditions has prompted protest inside Facebook

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him: the evolution of one of 2018’s best memes

Fifteen years after Paul Bremer announced the capture of Saddam Hussein, the footage has become the internet’s favourite punchline

Facebook: Washington DC sues tech giant over Cambridge Analytica data use

DC attorney general said company ‘put users at risk of manipulation’ as it faces new reports that it shared data without permission

Facebook users cannot avoid location-based ads, investigation finds

No combination of settings can stop location data being used by advertisers, says report

Facebook shared private user messages with Netflix and Spotify

Firm bent its own data rules for major clients such as Amazon, Microsoft and Sony, report says

Facebook has built a Frankenstein’s monster. When will it admit that?

In the wake of the latest reports criticising Facebook and Google, maybe it’s time for the tech giants to relinquish their hold over our lives

Instagram: from Facebook’s ‘best hope’ to Russian propaganda campaign tool

The app was ‘perhaps the most effective platform’ for the Russian online propaganda campaign by the Internet Research Agency

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  • Ireland is big tech’s lapdog – and that compromises its EU presidency
  • Crypto firms operating in UK to be subject to sweeping new rules
  • US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
  • Shares in chipmakers underpinning AI boom rocket in first half of 2026
  • Comcast to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into separate media business
  • Ministers likely to support law change to allow delivery robots on England’s paths
  • ‘His ability is hard to deny’: is Tom Hardy a secretly good rapper?
  • ‘A very good gadget’: taking delivery from the robots of Milton Keynes
  • Once, cyber-attacks required great skill. AI is changing that
  • Done Quixote? Film archivists on quest to finish Orson Welles passion project
  • Black Box: Flight 298 review – there’s a beastie in the hold in airborne conspiracy horror
  • Keir Starmer’s attempts to placate big tech were a disaster. Andy Burnham must take a stand
  • ‘Genuinely changed my life’: why Groundhog Day is my feelgood movie
  • The Last Assassins review – shades of Blade Runner in dystopian thriller shrouded in silty-green murk
  • Why did the BBC hire Ashley Cain? Because it has a warped idea of what young men want
  • Fragments of Ice review – fascinating chronicle of Soviet collapse through the lens of a Ukrainian ice skater
  • Ring Video Doorbell Pro review: night and day better with new 4K camera
  • Australian with retirement savings? You probably own SpaceX
  • ‘Crypto v community’: 4,000 local US lenders join forces to fight ‘stablecoins’ law
  • When it comes to taxing the super rich, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel
  • ‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears
  • ‘Tech firms are losing the public’: social media age bans near tipping point
  • I’m a psychiatrist who was terrified of horror films – until I learned about ‘cinematic neurosis’
  • Two prime ministerial resignations, 10 years apart: ‘Brexit represents a kind of faultline in British history’
  • Lost your crypto access code? Be wary, there‘s a scam for that too
  • ‘Enforcement mode’: Australia must take fight to tech giants to make social media ban stick, experts warn
  • Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100
  • Pro-One Nation Facebook groups appear to be run by foreign ‘meme factories’ that monetise content
  • Abbie Chatfield: ‘Someone told her worst dating story. I lay on the floor of the stage and screamed’
  • The AI bubble has further to run despite the looming crash

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