The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback

The Long Read: The social network had a grand plan to connect millions of Indians to the internet. Here’s how it all went wrong

Angry about Facebook censorship? Wait until you hear about the news feed

Peeved about Facebook’s curation of trending topics? Its news feed is reinventing censorship for a technological age, and humans need not apply

US senator demands Facebook explain allegations it censors conservative news

Following claim Facebook suppresses conservative views in ‘trending news’, top Republican senator John Thune sent a terse letter to Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook to sponsor GOP convention despite Zuckerberg’s veiled dig at Trump

In April, Zuckerberg talked of ‘fearful voices building walls’ – but Facebook insists that sponsorship of Republican convention is not an endorsement

Blame it on the Zodiac killer: did social media ruin Ted Cruz’s campaign?

For the first time in the election cycle, community-generated memes have played a significant role in political discourse – similar to the classic printed cartoon

TV networks battle new media threat as Facebook looms over ad war

Hulu, Vice and other new media services are preparing to gather in New York for this year’s NewFronts, as Facebook and Google watch ad dollars pour in

The profits and perils of drilling for crude data

Our online information is the raw resource of the digital age, yet mining it can be risky for the new industrial giants

Please, Facebook, don’t make me speak to your awful chatbots

The future of apps is chatbots, and it’s going to be terrible

Zuckerberg has given Facebook investors all they need. He wants one thing in return: control

Company is likely to let its co-founder and CEO push that little bit further, given that it’s making more money, from more users

Twitter adds function to report multiple abusive tweets at same time

Update aims to speed up reporting process for those suffering from online abuse and will be rolled out to users in coming weeks

Bradford MP Naz Shah quits as McDonnell’s PPS after antisemitic posts

Labour MP resigns as aide over ‘relocate Israel to US’ post but remains on committee reporting on antisemitism

Tech titans are busy privatising our data

When Facebook and Google finally destroy the competition, a new age of feudalism will arrive

How Facebook plans to take over the world

Social network went from digital directory for college kids to communications behemoth – and it’s planning for prosperity with its global takeover