One year inside Trump’s monumental Facebook campaign
A Guardian investigation of 218,100 ads reveals how the campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
Trump’s greatest ally in the coming election? Facebook
The internet giant has exempted politics from regulations on falsehood. Good news for a candidacy built on lies, says Guardian columnist John Harris
Hypocrisy is at the heart of Facebook’s refusal to ban false political advertising
Executive Andrew Bosworth’s handwringing about the company’s stance should not blind us to the fact that doing nothing is extremely lucrative for it
Social media firms ‘should hand over data amid suicide risk’
Royal College of Psychiatrists hope research will shine light on how young people use platforms
France’s digital minister says tax on big tech is just the start
Cédric O says French will not back down on levy despite US threats of trade war
Facebook’s refusal to fact-check political ads is reckless
The social network’s bosses hail the power of targeted campaigns, but won’t take responsibility
If your customers are left-leaning, Twitter could be the place for you
A study has found that the social media platform’s users skew leftwards and that offers businesses opportunities – and pitfalls
Facebook bans ‘deepfake’ videos in run-up to US election
Critics say policy does not cover ‘shallow fakes’ – videos made using conventional editing tools
Facebook removes false HIV-prevention ads after LGBTQ+ outcry
The ads, which were on Facebook for months before the company acted, contained false claims about side effects of anti-HIV drugs
Too big to fail? Tech’s decade of scale and impunity
Big tech behaves as though power absolves them of responsibility. Have we learned nothing since the financial crash?
The tech giants dominated the decade. But there’s still time to rein them in
Google, Amazon and Facebook moved at a scale and speed governments couldn’t match. Now regulators are trying to catch up, says writer and researcher Jay Owens
‘I am going to say quiet words in your face just like I did with Trump’: a conversation with the Zuckerbot
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg won’t talk to the Guardian. So we fed everything he says into an algorithm, built a Zuckerbot, and interviewed it
The dark side of tech: why the Guardian asks tough questions about Silicon Valley
Since we opened our west coast bureau in 2016, we’ve worked to expose the truth about how tech companies are reshaping society and democracy
Tories switch to messaging app Signal after WhatsApp leaks
Platform has option to make messages automatically disappear after set time period
We can’t fight fake news without saving local journalism
Local news is often trusted more than national news but it is highly vulnerable to online disinformation