Publish all Vote Leave’s data, campaign chief challenges Facebook Dominic Cummings says move would prove campaign did not use data gathered improperly by Cambridge Analytica
Facebook tweak bars undocumented immigrants from buying political ads Policy change designed to help verify identity has sparked a backlash by inadvertently excluding undocumented Americans
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says Bannon wanted to suppress voters Christopher Wylie testified before the Senate judiciary committee that Bannon wanted ‘weapons to fight a culture war’
Facebook lets advertisers target users based on sensitive interests Social network categorises users based on potentially sensitive interests such as Islam or homosexuality
Mark Zuckerberg has ‘no plans’ to go to UK to give evidence to MPs MPs inquiring into Cambridge Analytica breach ask Facebook CEO to appear via video link
Facebook closed 583m fake accounts in first three months of 2018 Firm’s first quarterly moderation report shows scale of spam, hate speech and violence
Facebook suspends 200 apps as part of investigation into data misuse After Cambridge Analytica fallout, the company is investigating apps that had access to large amounts of data before 2014
Keeping a free and fair press is one of the defining political issues of our age Both those who are wronged, and those seeking to expose abuses of power, pay a price
‘We’re waiting for answers’: Facebook, Brexit and 40 questions MPs’ frustrations grow as new evidence in America reopens the issue of Kremlin influence
Revealed: the overseas anti-abortion activists using Facebook to target Irish voters The social media giant has disclosed that many sites targeting voters are managed outside Ireland
Klout is dead – how will people continuously rank themselves online now? The app that analysed and scored users’ online followings has closed after 10 years – to make way for a tool that may cheapen social media even further
Facebook hit with class action lawsuit over collection of texts and call logs Plaintiffs claim social network’s ‘scraping’ of information including call recipients and duration violates privacy and competition law
#BlueLivesMatter and Beyoncé: Russian Facebook ads hit hot-button US issues Congress releases 3,500 Russian-made advertisements focused on race, gun control, LGBT rights and immigration
Facebook to block foreign spending on Irish abortion vote ads Company accused of being late with move to help curb outside attempts to sway referendum
Social media copies gambling methods ‘to create psychological cravings’ Methods activate ‘same brain mechanisms as cocaine’ and leads to users experiencing ‘phantom’ notification buzzing, experts warn