Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs
Former UK deputy PM says he ‘will no longer seek to play a public role’ in Brexit debate
Facebook has a fake news ‘war room’ – but is it really working?
Corporation shows off room of engineers, data scientists and other experts but offers reporters few new specifics
Almost 50% of the world is online. What about the other 50%?
Connecting developed nations was relatively easy, but getting the rest of the world online will be far more difficult
Facebook accused of censorship after hundreds of US political pages purged
The removal of 800 pages and accounts came as a shock to many on both the left and right
LadBible takes over social media rival UniLad
Takeover exposes financial challenges in face of success on Facebook
MPs question Google, Facebook and Twitter on problematic content
Executives unable to give figures to Commons science and technology committee
Facebook cracks down on ‘dark ads’ by British political groups
Social network hopes launch of transparency tools will restore trust after series of scandals
The Guardian view on artificial intelligence: human learning
Editorial: Computers can’t be held responsible for anything. So their owners and programmers must be
Google to shut down Google+ after failing to disclose user data leak
Company didn’t disclose leak for months to avoid a public relations headache and potential regulatory enforcement
Facebook says 14m accounts had personal data stolen in recent breach
Hackers were able to access name, birthdate and other data in nearly half of the 30 million accounts that were affected
Why tech’s gender problem is nothing new
Decades after women were pushed out of programming, Amazon’s AI recruiting technology carried on the industry’s legacy of bias
Competition regulator considering UK digital ad market inquiry
CMA remarks add to pressure on Google and Facebook, which dominate £13bn market
LadBible moves closer to acquiring fellow viral publisher Unilad
Administrator for collapsed firm has been informing rival bidders they are out of running
Would you have a Facebook Portal camera in your house? Me neither
The company says its new smart screen for making video calls is built with privacy in mind. Yeah, we’ve heard that one before …
Facebook removes hundreds of US political pages for ‘inauthentic activity’
Some accounts were fake or ad farms pretending to be forums for political debate, company says