Microsoft’s Bing ready to step in if Google pulls search from Australia, minister says
Paul Fletcher plays down Google threat and says government will not back down on news media code
What a great shot! Vaccination selfies become the latest social media hit
A new trend has emerged – public figures posting ‘vaxxies’ showing the moment they received their jab
Zuckerberg lobbies Josh Frydenberg over plan to force Facebook and Google to pay for news content
Treasurer says Facebook founder had not managed to convince federal government to back down
Will Google and Facebook really axe some services in Australia and what will that mean?
Explainer: the tech giants are far from happy with a new Australian code that could cost them when it comes to news content
Facebook ‘still making money from anti-vax sites’
Social network allowing dangerous Covid theories to be shared, says Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Forget the furore over Trump – Facebook is interested only in maintaining its monopoly
The social network’s ‘supreme court’ of 40 assorted academics, politicians and journalists to oversee the site’s content is little more than a PR exercise
Facebook is banning leftwing users like me – and it’s going largely unnoticed
Facebook placed a number of leftwing organizers on a restricted list during Biden’s inauguration. It’s part of a much bigger problem
Facebook shuts popular Robinhood Stock Traders group amid GameStop frenzy
Facebook says group, which has 157,000 members, was taken down for allegedly violating policies unrelated to stock price surges
Facebook removes Save Our Rights UK Covid denial videos
Social media site pulls videos by group that Tory MP told to persist with its anti-lockdown activities
Apple and Facebook at odds over privacy move that will hit online ads
Tim Cook lambasts firms ‘built on misleading users, data exploitation, on choices that are not choices at all’
Facebook board set to rule on Trump ban reverses four content removal cases
Cases included content on Covid misinformation and hate speech, and panel will rule soon on the decision to suspend Trump
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says platform will halt political suggestions
The announcement comes on the heels of the company’s earnings report, which exceeded analyst’s predictions at $28bn
Too rude for Facebook: the ban on Britain’s historic place names
The social network’s oversensitive hate speech filters have made it impossible to mention respectable locations like Devil’s Dyke and Plymouth Hoe. The residents are not amused …
Big tech was allowed to spread misinformation unchecked. Will Biden hold them accountable?
Social media platforms have become information monopolies with runaway scale, an ideal place for conspiracy theories to fester
Facebook apologises for flagging Plymouth Hoe as offensive term
Social media site mistakenly labels posts referring to the seafaring landmark in Devon as misogynistic