Margrethe Vestager: ‘We are doing this because people are angry’

She’s the woman who took on Google and Apple and Starbucks… The European competition commissioner – and inspiration for the Borgen TV series – discusses her fight for fairness against powerful corporate interests

Same-sex marriage survey: Facebook accounts targeted with homophobic slurs

Material ranging from the apocalyptic to global conspiracies being used to try to sway Australians’ votes in postal survey

Facebook allowed advertisers to target ‘Jew haters’

Embarrassing discovery that Facebook let advertisers target users interested in antisemitic topics comes as the social network’s ad practices are under scrutiny

Cambodia’s YouTube provocateur: ‘Is a woman’s value measured by virginity?’

From menstruation to masturbation, no topic is off limits for a candid online activist who has established a big following in culturally conservative Cambodia

Facebook claims it can reach more young people than exist in UK, US and other countries

Social media company’s advertising data doesn’t tally with census data for millennial and other demographics to the tune of millions of people

Facebook says likely Russia-based group paid for political ads during US election

Findings support conclusions that Russia was active in shaping the US election, though company says it found no links to any presidential campaign

Apple, Facebook and Microsoft lead fightback against Trump over Daca

Microsoft promises legal support for any employee facing deportation, while Facebook and Apple issued statements criticising decision to end migrant program

Can Facebook take on Netflix with its first season of original shows?

The launch of the social network’s new streaming service, Watch, sees a range of offerings – but the strategy to focus on reality TV might limit long term success

You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg or Priscilla Chan as too many already have

On Facebook, the only member of the immediate Zuckerberg family you can block is Beast, their dog – plus Mark’s sister Randi

The far right is losing its ability to speak freely online. Should the left defend it?

Free speech was the left’s rally cry. But the fate of the Daily Stormer, a hate site ‘kicked off the internet’, signals the increasing irrelevance of the first amendment

UK TV industry risks losing £1bn a year to Amazon, YouTube and Facebook

Traditional broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV and Sky could follow other industries in losing out to digital ‘middlemen’, says report

Facebook removes posts made by people smugglers aiming to lure migrants

Social media content painting a positive picture of risky Mediterranean sea crossings is removed after Guardian highlights nature of material

#Hashtag10: the best hashtag fails in a decade

The ‘funny little hack’ started a decade ago with #barcamp, and now 125m of them are shared daily on Twitter alone – but not without a few misfires

Mark Zuckerberg on Charlottesville: Facebook will remove violent threats

CEO says Facebook is ‘watching closely’ and will ‘take down threats of physical harm’, joining raft of tech companies purging white nationalists and neo-Nazis

Daily Stormer jumps to dark web while Reddit and Facebook ban hate groups

Action by technology companies and hacking group Anonymous removes neo-Nazi site from open web, while social media steps up anti-hate actions