Facebook cancels annual developer conference amid coronavirus concerns

Microsoft and Epic Games also announce they will not be attending this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco

Mike Bloomberg’s campaign is polluting the internet

From doctored videos to fake quotes, the presidential candidate is muddying the water online – and it’s working

Philippines journalist leading war on fake news may be jailed for 12 years on libel charges

‘Tongue-in-cheek’ clip falsely suggesting candidate silenced his rivals will not be removed from Instagram

Co-founder says site sits between telephone company and newspaper as content provider

A separate new inquiry will focus on services allowing online advertisers to target Australian internet users

A network of profit-driven pages fuelling anti-Islamic sentiment was exposed two months ago but is still operating

Report also urges government to consider making firms such as Facebook share their data

Not so long ago we searched Google. Now we seem quite happy to let Google search us

CEO defended Facebook’s decision not to ban political ads and said company will ‘stand up for free expression’

Facebook’s CEO says, ominously, that he will be making unpopular decisions because he believes them to be right

Tag Suggest feature broke rules by storing facial recognition imagery without permission from users

Country on frontline of information war teaches everyone from school pupils to politicians how to spot slippery information