Engagement with anti-vaccine Facebook posts trebles in one month
Exclusive: Guardian analysis prompts calls for new drive to combat conspiracy theories
Medical experts v anti-vaxxers: the Covid-19 information battle
Scientists face potential struggle to convince people of vaccine safety as celebrities join misinformation chorus
Just like Australia, disinformation is thriving during the US fire crisis
In both countries, fake news about arson proliferated while the role of climate change was obscured
Wealth of US billionaires rises by nearly a third during pandemic
Report includes Jeff Bezos, whose personal fortune has risen by 65% since 18 March
Oculus Quest 2 VR headset review: the virtual escape from Covid-19 we need?
Cheaper, lighter, crisper screen and more power make for potent standalone virtual reality escapism
Liberal MP Craig Kelly’s hydroxychloroquine claims should be removed from social media, regulator says
ACMA says social media companies would be expected to remove harmful material about health under proposed codes of conduct
Facebook and Google announce plans to become carbon neutral
Firms join Apple and Microsoft in committing to put no excess carbon into the atmosphere
Facebook suffers blow in Australia legal fight over Cambridge Analytica
Tech giant fails to convince court it doesn’t carry out business in Australia as privacy regulator accuses Facebook of breaches
Greens may back forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news if ABC is included
Sarah Hanson-Young says Coalition needs to fix the draft code to save public interest journalism and if it did Greens could back it
Twitter and Google join Facebook in tightening rules on US election claims
Platforms will target unverified claims of election rigging and premature results declarations
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won’t remove anti-vaccine posts despite Covid concerns
Social media chief denies Facebook’s algorithms are designed to push viewpoints ‘that are going to kind of enrage people’
Australian laws can’t stop spread of suicide footage on TikTok
Legislation requiring social media companies to remove abhorrent violent material can’t be used in this case as videos of suicide don’t legally fit that definition
TikTok video: Australian PM says distressing suicide footage must be removed
Video first appeared on Facebook in late August and has been edited and uploaded to other platforms
‘A climate change-scale problem’: how the internet is destroying us
The Social Dilemma, a new Netflix film, meets former tech executives and developers who helped build the online world – and think it’s causing serious harm
Morrison warns Facebook and Google he won’t respond well to any threats over news code
PM says he supports ACCC over paying for news content amid escalating campaign by big tech companies