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