Meta rejects Craig Kelly’s demand to suspend factchecking on Facebook during election campaign

United Australia party leader tells parliamentary committee Facebook enforcing its community standards on politcians’ posts is ‘foreign interference’

Flood of Russian misinformation puts tech companies in the hot seat

With Facebook and other platforms key to spreading news from Ukraine, officials and activists urge broader crackdown

Facebook takes down Ukraine disinformation network and bans Russian-backed media

Meta says network ran websites posing as independent news entities and created fake personas

I’ve been waiting 15 years for Facebook to die. I’m more hopeful than ever

Facebook is struggling to retain users, fending off regulation, trying to pivot to VR, and paying a massive wage premium to attract the workers it needs to make any of this happen. The company is on the ropes

Facebook launches Reels globally, betting on ‘fastest growing’ format

After a dismal earnings report in February and in a bid to attract younger users, the platform is prioritizing short video content

Disinformation for profit: scammers cash in on conspiracy theories

Some accounts claiming to support the Canada trucker protests are run by con artists abroad

If Nick Clegg wants to fix Meta, he needs to tackle its problem with human rights

The company’s new head of global affairs needs to tackle the surveillance business model that has done so much harm, says Frederike Kaltheuner of Human Rights Watch

‘Live in the future’: Zuckerberg unveils company overhaul amid shift to metaverse

CEO of company formerly called Facebook touts pivot at all-hands meeting as he faces investment concerns

‘Now we don’t have a safe place’: sex workers’ social media site Switter shuts down amid legal fears

Platform says government changes to online safety and defamation laws in Australia, UK and US made it ‘impossible’ to comply

French anti-vaxxers buying fake Covid passes online

Exclusive: fake passes often promoted on mainstream social media platforms, study shows

‘Every move scrutinized’: Facebook’s rocky road to the metaverse

The CEO has changed the world – but he faces regulatory, technological and branding troubles in his push to do it again

Facebook should guard against revealing private addresses, board recommends

Oversight Board of Meta recommends exception to privacy rules should be removed

The Guardian view on social media’s metaverse: it may remain science fiction

Editorial: The online virtual reality experience that almost every tech giant today wishes to commercially exploit may not catch on

For the first time in its history, Facebook is in decline. Has the tech giant begun to crumble?

As long as the number of users kept growing, Mark Zuckerberg felt able to ride out scandals and criticism. He can no longer rely on that defence

Sending threatening posts among offences in revised online safety bill

Proposed laws require tech firms to prevent publication of harmful content or face substantial fines