Trump digital director says Facebook helped win the White House
Brad Parscale tells CBS ‘Twitter is how [Trump] talked to the people’ but says staff members from other social media giant helped with targeted advertising
Twelve Facebook tips that everyone should know
Sync your calendars, censor your history and save great posts: top ways to streamline your social experience
Why Facebook is in a hole over data mining
It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s business model that allows Facebook to be manipulated by political activists – no wonder he’s in denial about it
Fake model scouts tricking UK girls into sharing explicit photos
Leading model agencies say calls from worried parents are increasing as scammers use social media to exploit children
‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster
WhatsApp makes its own unique emojis – that look similar to Apple’s
WhatsApp’s 1.2bn users given iOS-style emojis that differ from those on Facebook and Messenger, adding to general air of cross-platform confusion
Facebook says up to 10m people saw ads bought by Russian agency
Ads during election and afterward focused on ‘divisive social and political messages’, says VP after company provided material to Congress
Facebook and Google promote politicized fake news about Las Vegas shooter
The spread of rightwing blogs, claiming the shooter was an anti-Trump liberal, on to mainstream platforms is the latest example of hyper-partisan trolling after a tragedy
Jeff Bezos has his shops, so now Mark Zuckerberg wants a whole town
Strange how history repeats itself. Amazon is following the model of Sears Roebuck, and Facebook seems to have taken a page out of a railroad tycoon’s book
British courts may unlock secrets of how Trump campaign profiled US voters
Legal loophole may help academic expose how Big Data firms like Cambridge Analytica and Facebook get their information
Did Russia fake black activism on Facebook to sow division in the US?
The popular ‘Blacktivist’ account claimed to be a force for community organizing. Now it looks to have been part of Russia’s effort to influence politics
The Guardian view on dating apps: users must own their love lives
Editorial: The wealth of information many dating apps request may help to home in on the perfect match. But users should be able to find out what is known about them and how that sensitive information is being used
Now I have a business page on Facebook, how can I delete my personal profile?
Jenny opened a Facebook account and has progressed from a personal profile to a business page. Now she’d like to delete her personal profile …
Facebook wants to know: is it good or bad? You tell us …
The site is polling users about how they perceive it but declining to publish the results. Answer these survey questions and let us know your thoughts
I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets
The dating app knows me better than I do, but these reams of intimate information are just the tip of the iceberg. What if my data is hacked – or sold?