Click and elect: how fake news helped Donald Trump win a real election

The ‘alt-right’ (aka the far right) ensnared the electorate using false stories on social media. But tech companies seem unwilling to admit there’s a problem• Become a Guardian supporter or make a contribution

Secret Facebook groups become Trump-era activist tools: ‘This is a wake-up call’

Those upset about the election of Donald Trump are using secret groups as a means to mobilize against what they fear could be a wild conservative agenda

Wildlife smugglers using Facebook to sell ivory and rhino horn

An investigation reveals the social media site is acting as a shopfront for a multimillion dollar trade in animal parts, centred in a small village outside Hanoi

Mark Zuckerberg vows more action to tackle fake news on Facebook

Facebook chief acknowledges problem but continues to argue that spread of hoax stories on the social network did not influence US election

Facebook profile glitch ‘kills’ millions. Even Mark Zuckerberg

A glitch on the social media site found people logging in to their accounts on Friday, only to find they had been prematurely ‘memorialized’

Peter Thiel goes ‘big league’, joining Trump’s presidential transition team

The PayPal founder’s support for Donald Trump made him an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley. What do we know about this controversial billionaire?

Newspapers big and small are facing an existential crisis

News Corporation and the CN Group are suffering from the same problem, declining newsprint advertising revenue, which imperils journalism’s future

Facebook’s fake news: Mark Zuckerberg rejects ‘crazy idea’ that it swayed voters

Those who think fake news is why someone voted for Trump show ‘profound lack of empathy’ and fail to internalize the president-elect’s message, he said

Facebook’s failure: did fake news and polarized politics get Trump elected?

The company is being accused of abdicating its responsibility to clamp down on fake news stories and counter the echo chamber that defined this election

Careful which chatbot you talk to, unless you want their ads on Facebook Messenger

Brands and businesses can send ‘sponsored messages’ to anyone who has previously chatted to them or a chatbot on Facebook Messenger

Do parents overshare pictures of their children on social media?

If you’re a parent who shares pictures of your children on social media, or a young person whose family has documented your life online, we’d like to hear from you

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook stake falls $3bn in a day

Social network’s shares plunge after chief financial officer warns of slowing advertising growth

Google, Facebook and Microsoft race to get 1 billion Indians online

Tech giants hope to benefit from widening access in a country where just 26% of the population has access to the internet

Facebook’s profits soar as it continues to swallow online advertising market

Near tripling of the social media giant’s profits comes at a time when traditional news publishers are hemorrhaging ad dollars and announcing cutbacks

A bug in the matrix: virtual reality will change our lives. But will it also harm us?

Prejudice, harassment and hate speech have crept from the real world into the digital realm. For virtual reality to succeed, it will have to tackle this from the start