Fake news sharing in US is a rightwing thing, says study

University of Oxford project finds Trump supporters consume largest volume of ‘junk news’ on Facebook and Twitter

Former Facebook and Google workers launch campaign to fight tech addiction

Campaign to highlights potential harm of digital platforms and social media on young people, alongside a call to regulate tech companies

Claws out: how Black Panther fought off a toxic Ghostbusters-style online campaign

The pushback against an attempt to lower the superhero movie’s score on Rotten Tomatoes has show that culture war’s latest battleground is still raging

Facebook posts $4.3bn profit as Zuckerberg laments ‘hard year’

Zuckerberg says company to focus on ‘meaningful connections’ as profit in final three months of last year climbs on $12.7bn revenues

Facebook enables ‘fake news’ by reliance on digital advertising – report

Paper co-written by former company exec recommends switching news feed back to chronological listing

Facebook bans cryptocurrency adverts because so many are scams

Social network blocks initial coin offering ads as they are ‘frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices’

The big tech backlash

Tech giants are drawing political fire over fake news and Russian meddling

May calls again for tech firms to act on encrypted messaging

Focus shifts to smaller platforms that can ‘quickly become home to criminals and terrorists’

Facebook should be ‘regulated like cigarette industry’, says tech CEO

Salesforce chief Marc Benioff is latest tech insider to raise alarm over social media’s effect on society with comments at Davos

Facebook to roll out new tools in response to EU privacy laws

COO Sheryl Sandberg also reiterates company’s promise to add 10,000 safety and security personnel, tackle fake news and end abuse

Rupert Murdoch tells Facebook: pay ‘trusted’ publishers for their content

Amid policy changes at social network, media mogul criticizes it for failing to ‘adequately reward’ publishers that add value and integrity

Facebook: we were too slow to recognise our ‘corrosive’ effect on democracy

Social network hiring 10,000 more staff to combat spread of fake news, and harassment use of Facebook as a weapon in ‘cyberwar’

Why Facebook’s news feed changes are bad news for democracy

News organisations say they have seen a steady drop off in Facebook referred traffic

I run a small, independent magazine. I worry Facebook will kill us off

For independent and non-profit outlets, small shifts in algorithms – as Mark Zuckerberg just introduced – can pose an existential threat