Facebook is buying anonymous teen compliments app TBH
App that avoids bullying behaviour by offering pre-checked questions is latest popular social-media app owned by company after 1bn messages were sent
Same-sex marriage survey: help us track targeted ads on Facebook
Guardian Australia has teamed up with ProPublica to make it easier for people to report ads in their social feed
One man’s online politics is another man’s poison
We may end up with Kremlin-sponsored ads but the democratising effect of new technology opens the door to all voices
Facebook ad ban over nude artwork shocks women’s not-for-profit
Tote bag created by artist Frances Cannon features two nude women dancing but was ‘in no way meant to be controversial’
Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook owes US an apology over Russian meddling
Facebook’s chief operating officer gave first live interview by a senior executive since the company disclosed it found some 3,000 politically divisive ads
Facebook’s Oculus reveals stand-alone virtual reality headset
Oculus Go will not require linking to a smartphone or personal computer like its predecessor, the Oculus Rift, and will cost less at $199
Facebook and Instagram services restored after major global disruption
Computers, smartphones and apps all hit by problem – with Europe and North America worst affected by faults now resolved
UK government considers classifying Google and Facebook as publishers
Culture secretary says internet firms may have legal status changed amid concerns about copyright and extremist material
Mark Zuckerberg ‘tours’ flooded Puerto Rico in bizarre virtual reality promo
The Facebook CEO’s cartoon avatar visited the hurricane-damaged island in a tone-deaf live stream that was part disaster tourism, part product promotion
Trump digital director says Facebook helped win the White House
Brad Parscale tells CBS ‘Twitter is how [Trump] talked to the people’ but says staff members from other social media giant helped with targeted advertising
Twelve Facebook tips that everyone should know
Sync your calendars, censor your history and save great posts: top ways to streamline your social experience
Why Facebook is in a hole over data mining
It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s business model that allows Facebook to be manipulated by political activists – no wonder he’s in denial about it
‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster
WhatsApp makes its own unique emojis – that look similar to Apple’s
WhatsApp’s 1.2bn users given iOS-style emojis that differ from those on Facebook and Messenger, adding to general air of cross-platform confusion
Facebook says up to 10m people saw ads bought by Russian agency
Ads during election and afterward focused on ‘divisive social and political messages’, says VP after company provided material to Congress