WhatsApp to force users to accept changes to terms of service

Controversial changes aim to allow small firms to upload catalogues and let users buy without leaving the app

The online safety bill will show just how blurred the boundaries of free speech are

Ofcom and big tech will be told to do more, but do we want them to decide who’s allowed to say what, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Online safety bill ‘a recipe for censorship’, say campaigners

Proposals hand Ofcom the power to identify ‘lawful but harmful’ content and punish social networks that fail to remove it

Online safety bill: a messy new minefield in the culture wars

Analysis: Ofcom remains gatekeeper of big social networks, but moderators face multiple conundrums with the legislation

Loan sharks target new victims via WhatsApp and Facebook

Criminals have been using social media – from dating sites to local community groups – to find, threaten and control people in debt

Can virtual meeting spaces save us all from Zoom fatigue?

Few of us will be back in the office full time – but does that have to mean endless video calls? Meet the weird and wonderful newcomers hoping to take a piece of the action

Facebook is pretending it cares how its platform affects the world

The reality is that Trump used Facebook most effectively as an organizing and fundraising tool, not as a platform for ‘posting’

Hillary Clinton: ‘There has to be a global reckoning with disinformation’

The former secretary of state warns of the danger to democracy of lies flourishing online – and says big tech’s wings must be clipped

The inside story of how we reached the Facebook-Trump verdict

I am a member of Facebook’s oversight board. Here’s why we decided to continue his suspension from Facebook

Facebook fudge potentially lets Trump live to lie another day

Analysis: Trump will try to have it both ways over the verdict – decrying censorship but also eyeing an eventual return to the platform

Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board

Analysis: Ruling stopped short of making final decision, deepening questions over the oversight board’s effectiveness

Trump’s Facebook ban should not be lifted, network’s oversight board rules

Former president’s account suspended in wake of Capitol attack in January

Trolls can be hunted down and rooted out. So why aren’t social media giants doing it?

Four-day sporting boycott reinforces the need for Twitter, Facebook and others to get rid of those dishing out abuse – now

MP Craig Kelly ‘absolutely outraged’ after Facebook removes his page for misinformation

Independent MP has called removal of page ‘censorship’ while Facebook says no one is permitted to share misinformation about Covid on the platform