Tories switch to messaging app Signal after WhatsApp leaks
Platform has option to make messages automatically disappear after set time period
‘Mind your own business, Alexa!’ How to keep secrets from your voice assistant
Call centre workers who check how helpful our voice assistants are say they hear private conversations and couples having sex. Here’s how to avoid sharing your private life
We can’t fight fake news without saving local journalism
Local news is often trusted more than national news but it is highly vulnerable to online disinformation
#Disinformation: the online threat to protest in the Middle East
Social media users face attacks from influencers and fake accounts at home and abroad
The Coalition says it’s cracking down on Facebook and Google – but what does it actually mean?
Scott Morrison’s government will spend $27m on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s new digital division
Twenty tech trends for 2020
From new gaming consoles to activism at Apple, we predict the things you will – or won’t – see in tech this year
Facebook ads are spreading lies about anti-HIV drug PrEP. The company won’t act
Advocates fear such ads could roll back decades of hard-won progress against HIV/Aids and are calling on Facebook to change its policies
Consumer watchdog given new powers to crack down on Google and Facebook
New ACCC unit will monitor tech giants and ‘modernise’ online regulations, Scott Morrison says
‘I was hacked,’ says woman whose account claimed hospital boy photo was staged
Woman denies posting false information – since shared by at least five Conservative candidates – that photo was a stunt
As a Facebook moderator I saw the worst of humanity. We need to be valued
Murder, torture, child abuse: each day we see things that keep us awake at night. Yet Mark Zuckerberg calls us ‘overdramatic’, says former Facebook moderator Chris Gray
Facebook tells users Islamophobic posts meet its community standards despite investigation
Social media clears posts even after the Guardian reveals plot to control at least 21 far-right pages and spread disinformation
Australian politicians call for Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to appear before inquiry
Chair of Senate inquiry raises questions about revelations Facebook failed to stop massive far right disinformation network
Sorry, but I’ve lost my faith in tech evangelism
There are too many worrying developments in tech – traumatised moderators, AI bias, facial recognition – to be anything but pessimistic
Anthony Albanese sounds alarm on Facebook ‘laws of the jungle’ trumping Australian law
Labor leader says it is becoming impossible to distinguish real and fake information on social media platforms
I worked at Facebook – here’s how to fix social media’s political ads problem
I know abuses have given online ads a bad name, but banning them isn’t the answer, says Clare O’Donoghue Velikić