‘Disinfo kills’: protesters demand Facebook act to stop vaccine falsehoods
Activists place body bags on lawn at company’s Washington HQ as false information on vaccines flourishes
Facebook to limit ads children see after revelations Australian alcohol companies can reach teens
Advertisers on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger will no longer be able to market to under 18s based on their interests
Google, Apple and Microsoft report record-breaking profits
‘Perfect positive storm’ for big tech as pandemic fuels huge quarterly sales and stock market gains
‘A systemic failure’: vaccine misinformation remains rampant on Facebook, experts say
Misinformation ‘superspreader’ accounts found still active even as vaccination rates flag and cases rise in US
Chair of Trump’s 2017 inaugural fund arrested on foreign agent charges – as it happened
Barrack, 74, who played leading role in Trump inauguration in 2017, charged with acting as unregistered agent of UAE government – follow it live
Instagram ‘pushes weight-loss messages to teenagers’
Researchers find minimal interactions by teen users can trigger a deluge of thin-body and dieting images
Biden calls on Facebook to tackle misinformation after saying it’s ‘killing people’
President says he hopes platform won’t take his earlier remark ‘personally’ and instead act to save lives
An Ugly Truth by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang review – Facebook’s battle for domination
Russian hacking, smear campaigns and livestreamed massacres are the price of Mark Zuckerberg’s quest for connectivity, grippingly probed by two New York Times journalists
Majority of Covid misinformation came from 12 people, report finds
CCDH finds ‘disinformation dozen’ have combined following of 59 million people across multiple social media platforms
Ofcom chief slams social media giants over Euro 2020 racist messages
Melanie Dawes vows to weed out online abuse and enforce new powers to fine platforms for slow response
Social Warming by Charles Arthur review – a coolly prosecutorial look at social media
Social media giants contribute to global conflicts and allow misinformation. What are they doing to our lives, and what can we do about it?
Social networks’ anti-racism policies belied by users’ experience
Analysis: Twitter, Facebook and others condemn hateful speech, so why is it so easy to find on their sites?
What’s artificial intelligence best at? Stealing human ideas
Up for discussion in the first Guardian tech newsletter: can artificial intelligence enhance rather than replace us … internet age verification … plus Google’s €500m French fine
Queensland police investigated after sexist, racist and homophobic Facebook posts
Police commissioner Katarina Carroll says she has seen ‘defamatory’ posts about officers and MPs that ‘beggars belief’
Will Trump’s big tech lawsuits succeed? Experts say chances are slim
Legal scholars suggest former president’s complaint may bring the attention he craves but doesn’t present a serious legal argument