Whatever you do, don’t eat: the new rules of video-conferencing

Zoom and its kind are an almighty pain, with rules and pitfalls we are only just beginning to understand

Report coronavirus ‘quack cures’ immediately, says UK government

People urged to inform social media firms if they see falsehoods shared online

Trump’s deluge of Facebook ads have a curious absence: coronavirus

Campaign ads continue to focus on the southern border even as pandemic has killed hundreds of Americans

What’s the best tablet for video calling grandma?

Chris needs a tablet or video-calling device for his grandma’s Covid-19 isolation. What are the options?

Facebook is still far too powerful. It’s also how millions are coping with this crisis

As coronavirus forces communities online, support groups are realising Facebook’s promise to truly connect us, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Facebook says spam filter mayhem not related to coronavirus

Social network restores posts that were wrongly removed as system went haywire

British American Tobacco circumventing ad ban, experts say

BAT seems to be running accounts to promote e-cigarettes after crackdown on hiring influencers

Russian-led troll network based in west Africa uncovered

Fake Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts seemed to aim to inflame divides in US

UK to impose digital sales tax despite risk of souring US trade talks

Tax to be charged on revenue raised from UK sales, regardless of where firms are based

Questions over Israel’s role in WhatsApp case against spyware firm

WhatsApp alleges NSO Group hacked 1,400 users, including diplomats and activists

Facebook sued by Australian information watchdog over Cambridge Analytica-linked data breach

Facebook alleged to have committed serious breaches with data collected by This is Your Digital Life app used by Cambridge Analytica for political profiling

Facebook to remove misleading Trump ‘census’ ads

President’s re-election campaign had sponsored misleading ads, which actually linked to Republican fundraising site

Nando’s-inspired sex slang used by girls as young as 10

Data based on texts of 50,000 children suggests ‘peri peri’ and ‘coleslaw’ not as innocent as parents may think

YouTube accused of being ‘organ of radicalisation’

Algorithms push viewers to extremes, senior MP says at launch of report on far right

I had to stop someone photographing my mother at the morgue – social media mourning has gone too far

Grief is always public in Samoa, but now that people post selfies with dead bodies to Facebook, I had to draw the line