Brexit breaks news records as Facebook helps drive leave campaign

Publishers including the BBC, Telegraph and Guardian saw double-digit surges in web traffic around EU vote

US border control could start asking for your social media accounts

US Customs and Border Protection proposal would see Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts requested on landing and visa forms

Zuckerberg and Obama discuss startups, ‘nerd cool’ and Brexit at conference

The president called startups ‘the upside of an interconnected world’ when he joined founders at Stanford University for an entrepreneurship conference Friday

Democrats stream gun control sit-in on Periscope after Republicans turn TV cameras off

Lawmakers used live-stream video app Periscope and Facebook Live to broadcast their protest over gun control, in what TV network calls ‘a first’

Psst, want to flog a turkey like LinkedIn? Well, phone up Microsoft

The purchase of LinkedIn makes no business sense – its ship sailed long ago

Facebook leaders’ debate: and you thought this election couldn’t get any worse

I think the key question all Australians want answered has been asked by this frog on a unicycle

Orlando gunman searched for Facebook reaction during Pulse nightclub attack

Omar Mateen warned of the rampage on Facebook accounts thought to be associated with him, and searched for ‘Pulse’ and ‘shooting’ while still at the club

Facebook Messenger’s hidden football game is strangely addictive

Easter egg which coincides with Euro 2016 and Copa América is Facebook’s latest ploy to turn Messenger into another billion-user platform for the social network

Lonelygirl15: how one mysterious vlogger changed the internet

Bree was a funny, friendly 16-year-old video blogger with a strange family. But all was not what it seemed. Ten years on, we revisit YouTube’s first viral hoax

Facebook denies pro-Brexit bias

If you were ‘in favour of leaving the EU’, Facebook wanted you to tell people. Remaining, not so much

Facebook’s rise as news source hits publishers’ revenues

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism report also finds importance of TV news is waning among young people

‘Bible of trends’ for the media industry charts more famine than feast

From adblocking to a slowdown in mobile phone sales, investment company’s slide deck indicates the end of growth

Periscope CEO: ‘Facebook is shamelessly following us into live video. It’s flattering’

Kayvon Beykpour, the 27-year-old developer behind the live-streaming app, on the competition – and why footage of a puddle in Newcastle made such a splash