Facebook ads are spreading lies about anti-HIV drug PrEP. The company won’t act

Advocates fear such ads could roll back decades of hard-won progress against HIV/Aids and are calling on Facebook to change its policies

Consumer watchdog given new powers to crack down on Google and Facebook

New ACCC unit will monitor tech giants and ‘modernise’ online regulations, Scott Morrison says

‘I was hacked,’ says woman whose account claimed hospital boy photo was staged

Woman denies posting false information – since shared by at least five Conservative candidates – that photo was a stunt

Australian politicians call for Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to appear before inquiry

Chair of Senate inquiry raises questions about revelations Facebook failed to stop massive far right disinformation network

Sorry, but I’ve lost my faith in tech evangelism

There are too many worrying developments in tech – traumatised moderators, AI bias, facial recognition – to be anything but pessimistic

Anthony Albanese sounds alarm on Facebook ‘laws of the jungle’ trumping Australian law

Labor leader says it is becoming impossible to distinguish real and fake information on social media platforms

I worked at Facebook – here’s how to fix social media’s political ads problem

I know abuses have given online ads a bad name, but banning them isn’t the answer, says Clare O’Donoghue Velikić

Facebook is part of a toxic ecosystem of hate – it should be regulated or shut down

Facebook will never effectively regulate itself so we must consider drastic remedies

Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit

Guardian investigation reveals a covert plot to control some of Facebook’s largest far-right pages and harvest Islamophobic hate for profit

Monetising hate: covert enterprise co-opts far-right Facebook pages to churn out anti-Islamic posts

Exclusive: Israel-based group has gained access to at least 21 pages, using them to launch coordinated false stories to their 1 million followers around the world

Revealed: Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib targeted in far-right fake news operation

Israeli-based group uses Facebook to spread disinformation to more than a million followers around the world, singling out Muslim US congresswomen

Leaked NHS papers ‘put online by posters using Russian methods’

Questions about dissemination of documents do not mean they are fake, but pose new puzzle

Defiant Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook policy to allow false ads

Zuckerberg says ‘people should be able to judge for themselves the character of politicians’ and compares alternative to censorship