Is there any hope for truth? I went to a conference to find out

From bot factories weaponising misinformation to Twitter trolls polluting online debate, we are all living in a fake news world – unless, it turns out, you are a teen

How can we regulate our savage market for instant news?

Without clear consensus on the media standards we want, publishers cannot govern output

Facebook ordered to stop collecting user data by Belgian court

Social network instructed to delete illegally collected data or face €100m in fines after it loses case over consent and tracking

‘Parents killed it’: why Facebook is losing its teenage users

This year more than 3 million under-25s in the UK and US are expected to leave the site

Help us monitor political advertising on Facebook in your state

You can help make political advertising more transparent by recording ads and the associated targeting information

Facebook should ‘get back to baby pictures’, says YouTube CEO

Google’s Susan Wojcicki joins chorus attacking Facebook, while social network says it doesn’t know what people ‘find meaningful’

The Oxfam scandal shows colonialism is alive and well

Privileged white men giving devastated, impoverished women of colour money for sex is vile exploitation, not prostitution

Facebook personal data use and privacy settings ruled illegal by German court

Firm to appeal decision by Berlin regional court which upholds complaints that users not given informed consent

Government spying on immigrants in America is now fair game. What next?

Internet activity of all visa applicants, visa holders and green card holders is now tracked. And Sunni Muslim immigrants could face long-term surveillance

Is Facebook for old people? Over-55s flock in as the young leave

A forecast 700,000 teenagers and young adults will leave the social media site in 2018

Theresa May thinks Facebook will police itself? Some hope

The PM has joined the social media ‘techlash’, but only new laws, not pious aspirations, will make a difference

Dawn of the techlash

Once seen as saviours of democracy, tech giants are now viewed as threats to truth. But how did our faith in all things digital turn into an erosion of trust, particularly in the arena of information and politics?

YouTube: we’ve found no evidence of Russian interference in Brexit vote

British MPs criticise Google, Facebook and Twitter during fake news clash in Washington

How can I control my child’s social media use?

Julia has a problem with her 14-year-old son’s use of Instagram and Gmail and would like to take control of his accounts