Facebook advertises for a head of news after US election concerns
Job ad suggests company is looking for someone to address unease about fake news and social network’s wider impact
Digital natives can handle the truth. Trouble is, they can’t find it
Alarming research shows that while the young are brilliant at flitting about on social media, their ability to nail down hard facts is woefully lacking
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft team up to tackle extremist content
The tech companies plan to create a shared database of ‘unique digital fingerprints’ that can identify images and videos promoting terrorism
Google ‘must review its search rankings because of rightwing manipulation’
Hate sites are dominating and controlling searches on Muslims, Jews, Hitler and women, and search engine is failing to tackle problem, say academics
Google, democracy and the truth about internet search
Tech-savvy rightwingers have been able to ‘game’ the algorithms of internet giants and create a new reality where Hitler is a good guy, Jews are evil and… Donald Trump becomes president
Fake news detector for Facebook leads to fake news story about who made it
BS Detector was created by Daniel Sieradski (not Facebook) and was a reaction to the network’s failure to flag false information – until Facebook blocked it
Fake news: an insidious trend that’s fast becoming a global problem
With fake online news dominating discussions after the US election, Guardian correspondents explain how it is distorting politics around the world
2007, not 2016, is the year the world turned upside down
Why the dark times we’re facing now started with a rush of rapid technological change
Facebook doesn’t need to ban fake news to fight it
Mark Zuckerberg’s social media site doesn’t have to become a censor to help tackle false stories. It can do a lot by helping its own users with context
Facebook executive accuses UK parents of flouting age restrictions
Simon Milner, Facebook’s policy director, tells Lords committee parents are helping children sign up before minimum age of 13
Facebook will hire extra 500 UK workers for new central London HQ
Highly skilled posts required for offices in Fitzrovia will help to increase company’s British workforce by 50%
The secret life of a clickbait creator: lousy content, dodgy ads, demoralised staff
It wasn’t anyone’s ideal job, but during my time at a viral website, I repurposed other people’s content then harvested your data to sell on
Welcome to Twitter city: is there no limit to Jakarta’s social media obsession?
How did the world’s largest Muslim country react to the election of Donald Trump? By satirising it mercilessly on social media, of course. So what’s behind Indonesians’ obsession with viral sharing?
A moment of truth amid the fake news for Mark Zuckerberg
Fake news might be bad for democratic elections, but it’s big business for Facebook
In the new robopolitics, social media has left newspapers for dead
Much of the success of the Brexit and Trump campaigns was due to Twitter, Facebook and co. Who needs mainstream media when you’ve got algorithms?