Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft sign EU hate speech code

To tackle racism and xenophobia, big internet companies say they will try to review most notifications within 24 hours

Research reveals huge scale of social media misogyny

Labour’s Yvette Cooper is at forefront of cross-party campaign aiming to tackle the growing menace of online abuse

The death of a friend is always hard. What if you find out on Facebook?

There’s no clear etiquette for digital mourning, but it’s something we’re faced with increasingly often. Here’s how I navigate grief in the age of social media

Too fat for Facebook: photo banned for depicting body in ‘undesirable manner’

Facebook has apologized for wrongly banning a photo of plus-sized model Tess Holliday for violating the its ‘health and fitness’ advertising policy

Coming to a screen near you… the 20 best new social apps

There are plenty of great social apps jostling to be the next smartphone hit. Here are some of the contenders

Facebook execs, conservatives address ‘issue of trust’ with trending topics

Conservative commentators had a wide-ranging discussion with Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s headquarters after accusations of political bias

I can explain porn sites on my screenshot, says politician – really, I can

US congressional candidate Mike Webb offers supporters 2,000-word justification for video tabs visible in his Facebook post

Zuckerberg to meet Glenn Beck and Trump rep after Facebook news woes

Facebook CEO will meet with a senior Trump adviser and several influential conservatives, but Breitbart News said it has ‘zero interest in a photo-op’

Here is the news – but only if Facebook thinks you need to know

News publishers signing up to Facebook’s Instant Articles are just appeasing the enemy

Facebook’s news saga reminds us humans are biased by design

The revelation that some of the social media site’s journalistic decisions are made by people, not algorithms, has shone a fascinating light on the rapidly changing news landscape

Facebook news selection is in hands of editors not algorithms, documents show

Exclusive: Leaked internal guidelines show human intervention at almost every stage of its news operation, akin to a traditional media organization

Facebook controversy shows journalists are more complicated than algorithms

Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Google have moved outside their comfort zone by trying to curate ‘unbiased’ news – but journalists aren’t like computers