‘I hope someone truly shoots you’: online conspiracy theorists harass Vegas victims
Those who lived to describe the mass shooting face flood of abuse on social media accusing them of being actors, as hoax claims flourish on YouTube
‘Downright Orwellian’: journalists decry Facebook experiment’s impact on democracy
Media professionals in countries such as Guatemala and Slovakia fear for effect Facebook’s news feed changes will have on their already fragile politics
Empathy – the latest gadget Silicon Valley wants to sell you
The tech world wants us to believe that virtual reality will unlock human understanding on a global scale. But it’s also a business strategy
Revealed: how Australians are targeted with political advertising on Facebook
This database shows political Facebook posts that have been promoted into news feeds as advertisements, and how they are being targeted
How Malcolm Turnbull, GetUp and Adani are using Facebook ads to push their agenda
The nature of Facebook ads makes it difficult to see when political ads go out, which groups are campaigning for which cause and fact-check what they’re saying
Facebook: no current plans to make ‘catastrophic’ news feed change worldwide
Company’s head of news feed says test is to see if users prefer only friends’ posts in timeline, but journalists in affected countries warn of danger to democracy
‘Fake news’ inquiry asks Facebook to check for Russian influence in UK
Tory MP writes to Mark Zuckerberg over suspicions that Russia-linked accounts interfered in EU vote and general election
Facebook translates ‘good morning’ into ‘attack them’, leading to arrest
Palestinian man questioned by Israeli police after embarrassing mistranslation of caption under photo of him leaning against bulldozer
Facebook moving non-promoted posts out of news feed in trial
New system could destroy smaller publishers if implemented, after journalists report drop in organic reach – but users will still see their friends’ posts
Tim O’Reilly: ‘Generosity is the thing that is at the beginning of prosperity’
The tech pioneer, CEO of publishing company O’Reilly Media, says his industry will fail unless the web giants start putting consumers ahead of shareholders
Tech giants face Congress as showdown over Russia election meddling looms
Facebook, Twitter and Google once seemed to encapsulate freedom and connectivity. At a hearing on 1 November a new question will be posed: have they become a tool for foreign autocracies and domestic extremists?
‘Our pain for their gain’: the American activists manipulated by Russian trolls
As social media accounts like Blacktivist emerge as fake, demonstrators feel tricked – but say the activism the accounts fueled was very real
As tech companies get richer, is it ‘game over’ for startups?
Young firms struggle to compete as deep-pocketed companies like Facebook and Amazon clone products and consolidate their power
Google and Facebook under pressure after helping anti-refugee campaign
Secure America Now received targeted help to efficiently use its millions of dollars in ad-spending ahead of US general election in 2016, reports say
Franklin Foer: ‘Big tech has been rattled. The conversation has changed’
When the author Franklin Foer first raised concerns about Silicon Valley’s power players, ‘people looked at me funny’. Now his work seems prophetic