Tech giants are happy to do Modi’s bidding in return for access to the Indian market The Indian leader’s autocratic tendencies do not seem to have posed great ethical difficulties for Facebook and Twitter
Mark Zuckerberg, the modern Bond villain, is now coming for your children Instagram for kids? If the billionaire catches them early, he’ll have them for life
Facebook says it has reached net zero emissions Emissions cut by 94% in three years, and company is aiming for net zero across its supply chain by 2030
Photo-sharing is back: how social media has framed the pandemic Pictures of pubs and haircuts as UK Covid restrictions eased highlight how our digital lives have changed
Advocates say kids’ Instagram product would ‘put young users at great risk’ Children’s health advocates urged Mark Zuckerberg to abandon the plan citing the negative effects of social media on children
Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India – until it realized a BJP politician was involved Whistleblower points to double standard in Facebook’s enforcement of rules against powerful
Facebook has beefed up its ‘oversight board’, but any new powers are illusory The social media giant is still trying to navigate controversial content, yet the problem remains the platform itself, says Emily Bell
Facebook users to get ‘independent’ appeal hearings against posts Oversight Board braced for onslaught of cases concerning issues including blasphemy and hate speech
Life’s a Bitche: Facebook says sorry for shutting down town’s page Ville de Bitche in north-east France had fallen foul of social network’s algorithm
‘Facebook isn’t interested in countries like ours’: Azerbaijan troll network returns months after ban State-backed harassment campaign targets journalists and dissidents in authoritarian country
How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower’s account The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected
Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform
Another huge data breach, another stony silence from Facebook The social media giant is still a law unto itself. Can anybody hold it to account?
Facebook ‘still too slow to act on groups profiting from Covid conspiracy theories’ Over 100 Instagram accounts are promoting dangerous antivax views and selling ‘detox’ products, investigation finds
Who will deal with your online presence when you die? How to create a ‘digital will’ Making a plan now can prevent identity theft, save records and stop friends getting painful pop-up reminders when you’re gone