Democrats stream gun control sit-in on Periscope after Republicans turn TV cameras off

Lawmakers used live-stream video app Periscope and Facebook Live to broadcast their protest over gun control, in what TV network calls ‘a first’

Chiropractor admits posting abusive online messages to Nova Peris

Christopher Nelson, a former Liberal party member from the central coast of New South Wales, pleads guilty to using Facebook to send offensive messages

Psst, want to flog a turkey like LinkedIn? Well, phone up Microsoft

The purchase of LinkedIn makes no business sense – its ship sailed long ago

Facebook leaders’ debate: and you thought this election couldn’t get any worse

I think the key question all Australians want answered has been asked by this frog on a unicycle

Digital election: dank memes bring light relief, but parties put trust in targeting

Online campaigning is well-established as a fundraiser – now the parties are deploying all available platforms to change voter intention

Orlando gunman searched for Facebook reaction during Pulse nightclub attack

Omar Mateen warned of the rampage on Facebook accounts thought to be associated with him, and searched for ‘Pulse’ and ‘shooting’ while still at the club

Facebook Messenger’s hidden football game is strangely addictive

Easter egg which coincides with Euro 2016 and Copa América is Facebook’s latest ploy to turn Messenger into another billion-user platform for the social network

Facebook denies pro-Brexit bias

If you were ‘in favour of leaving the EU’, Facebook wanted you to tell people. Remaining, not so much

Facebook’s rise as news source hits publishers’ revenues

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism report also finds importance of TV news is waning among young people

Quentin Tarantino-produced film posts casting call for ‘whores’

Facebook post searching for actors to star in new western from the Oscar-winning director attracts angry response, before being deleted

‘Bible of trends’ for the media industry charts more famine than feast

From adblocking to a slowdown in mobile phone sales, investment company’s slide deck indicates the end of growth

BuzzFeed to live stream EU referendum event on Facebook

David Cameron to be one of those facing questioning by public on 10 June

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft sign EU hate speech code

To tackle racism and xenophobia, big internet companies say they will try to review most notifications within 24 hours

Mass media is over, but where does journalism go from here?

The crucial question no one, including Jeff Jarvis, can answer: how will we fund journalists in a world dominated by Google and Facebook?

Silicon Valley’s hoover leaves newspapers hunting for profit

Dominance of Facebook and Google has seen print ads plummet and newspapers’ once-bright digital future recede