Mark Zuckerberg’s letter annotated: what he said and what he didn’t
Alex Hern analyses the Facebook founder’s 5,700-word mission statement on the goals of Facebook and highlights what he really meant and what he left out
Mark Zuckerberg pens major Facebook manifesto on how to burst the bubble
The 5,700-word mission statement reads like a State of the Union address, tackling everything from fake news to growing anti-globalization sentiment
Trash dove: how a purple bird took over Facebook
First Thailand, now the world – Trash Dove is everywhere. We asked the creator, Syd Weiler, about the sticker that is all over Facebook comment threads
Facebook stops advertisers illegally discriminating by race
Social network will still allow targeting based on ‘ethnic affinity’ of users in domains other than housing, employment and credit
Nigel Farage on Loose Women showed the problem of our political bubbles
Watching the former Ukip leader on TV was a wake-up call to me. With divisions between groups widening, it’s essential we move out of our comfort zones
Facebook’s Oculus must pay $500m in virtual reality lawsuit
Jury determined that VR company’s CEO Palmer Luckey failed to comply with a non-disclosure agreement with games company ZeniMax
Fake news and fact-checking: Trump is demonstrating how to outsmart an AI
Martin Robbins: Automated fact-checking is hard enough, but Trump’s ‘chaos by design’ threatens to render it obsolete. Can Artificial Intelligence keep our grip on reality?
Mark Zuckerberg challenges Trump on immigration and ‘extreme vetting’ order
The Facebook CEO used his own page to criticize Donald Trump’s executive order that will severely limit immigrants from certain Muslim-majority countries
Why a rising number of criminals are using Facebook Live to film their acts
Police get a break as digitally savvy criminals who can’t resist the lure of an audience broadcast acts as serious as rape and torture. But why do they do it?
Post-truth politics will be debunked by online facts
Donald Trump’s lies are part of a long tradition of political mendacity that holds far fewer fears in the age of digital media
Panel debate on what can, or should, be done about fake news
Frontline Club hosts discussion about the phenomenon that has exposed sharp differences between mainstream media and social media
Is Facebook Live dead and buried?
Less than a year after Mark Zuckerberg paid millions to media companies to promote online live video coverage, the Facebook founder is changing tack
Gove’s ‘snowflake’ tweet is symptomatic of the nastiness that’s ruining politics
Twitter storms, online spats and insults are making it impossible to talk to one another and reach the compromises on which public life depends
Ohio mother who taped son to wall on Facebook Live faces charges
Police say child is in custody after the woman live-streamed the two-year-old taped to a wall and said ‘now sit still’
Civil rights groups urge Facebook to fix ‘racially biased’ moderation system
A coalition of more than 70 social and racial justice organizations urged Facebook to adopt reforms that would better target abusive content and harassment