Facebook backs down from ‘napalm girl’ censorship and reinstates photo
Company U-turns on its decision to remove the iconic Vietnam war photo featuring a naked girl after global outcry and accusations of ‘abusing power’
Nudity and Facebook’s censors have a long history
Social network’s deletion of Pulitzer-prize winning Vietnam photograph is just latest in a long list of controversies
Facebook deletes Norwegian PM’s post as ‘napalm girl’ row escalates
Erna Solberg shared photo that had resulted in writer and newspaper falling foul of social media giant’s rules
The realisation that Facebook can censor comes too late to publishers
It’s understandable that independent news organisations hate being censored but automation in news only looks certain to continue
Mark Zuckerberg accused of abusing power after Facebook deletes ‘napalm girl’ post
Norway’s largest newspaper published a front-page letter to the Facebook CEO lambasting the company’s decision to censor a photograph of the Vietnam war
A day with Facebook’s trending topics: celebrity birthdays and Pokémon Go
From a hurricane to Brock Turner’s release, a lot happened last week. But Facebook calculated that a celebrity losing some weight was more important
Cats v dogs: which animal owns the internet?
From Lolcats to keyboard cat, have the grumpy, complicated and just plain weird felines lost ground to their cute, friendly canine sworn enemies?
Alicia Garza on the beauty and the burden of Black Lives Matter
‘What it takes to get people from liking and sharing and retweeting to organising is a hard and long process,’ says the movement’s co-founder
How publishers are turning up the heat in the ad-blocking war
From hiding every third word to making content inaccessible, publishers are trying harder than ever to encourage readers to stop using ad blockers
Facebook banned Holbein’s hand – but it isn’t even art’s sauciest
If the Renaissance master’s simple drawing breached community standards, you wonder what Facebook would make of these other delightfully erotic digits
In firing human editors, Facebook has lost the fight against fake news
It took only two days for an algorithm to highlight a fake story about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. Facebook’s influence on news dissemination makes such mistakes arguably irresponsible
Facebook fires trending team, and algorithm without humans goes crazy
Module pushes out false story about Fox’s Megyn Kelly, offensive Ann Coulter headline and a story link about a man masturbating with a McDonald’s sandwich
Why Tim Berners-Lee is no friend of Facebook
It’s hypocritical of Mark Zuckerberg to sing the praises of the web’s founder when he’s trying to monopolise the internet
Airline passengers have had too much of a good thing over delay payouts
EU rules enable passengers delayed for more than three hours to get compensation far in excess of the fare. This needs to change
WhatsApp privacy backlash: Facebook angers users by harvesting their data
Facebook is being accused of backtracking on its pledge not to use the data of the 1 billion users of the WhatsApp messaging app it acquired two years ago