The US government wants to break up Facebook. Good – it’s long overdue

America broke up logging companies in the 1840s, Standard Oil in the 1910s, and AT&T in the 1980s. It’s time to take on big tech

Facebook faces biggest legal battle in years as US officials launch lawsuits

Regulators and 48 attorney generals take on company over antitrust concerns

Digital watchdog’s takeover powers might tame Facebook and Google at last

The UK’s Digital Markets Unit is likely to have powers to protect startups from the giants, and about time too

Zuckerberg threatened to pull investment from the UK

Minutes of a 2018 meeting show Facebook chief complaining UK was anti-tech and saying he might look elsewhere in Europe to invest

When to unfriend: ‘I just got so sick of seeing these stupid opinions on my feeds’

The corrosive aspects of social media have become particularly stark in 2020 – but does cutting out those you disagree with just exacerbate the problem?

ABC can keep Google and Facebook payments for news, Coalition says

Government won’t reduce public broadcaster’s funding over potential windfall from new media code, communications minister vows

Encrypted messaging putting children at risk of abuse, says watchdog

Children’s commissioner for England says tech giants are failing to keep children safe

Australian MP targeted by conspiracy posts calls for Facebook to be treated as publisher

Exclusive: Nationals’ Anne Webster reveals she is pressing for legislation to hold social media platforms to account for content they publish

‘Dirty methods’ in Brexit vote cited in push for new laws on Europe’s elections

Sites such as Facebook will have to publicly disclose identity of people and entities funding such advertising

Facebook to remove false claims about Covid vaccines

Move marks strongest move yet to prevent platform being used for anti-vaccination rhetoric

Post-Brexit Britain will have to do better than this to curb the power of big tech

Does the government grasp the scale of the challenge of digital regulation?, asks competition lawyer Michelle Meagher

Facebook and YouTube accused of complicity in Vietnam repression

Amnesty report accuses sites of openly signalling they will bow to authoritarian regimes