Why the joke Facebook page calling for people to storm Area 51 went viral
More than a million people have actually RSVP’d – and the military have issued a serious response.
Inside the Social Network: Facebook’s Difficult Year review – thumbs down!
As if bewitched by their level of access, the BBC ditched critical distance, rolled over and let out one giant cheer for the global techno-oligarchy. Unfriend!
How to survive the fake news about cancer
The internet is awash with ads for costly but bogus treatments – and claims that scientists are suppressing a cure for the disease
Facebook to be fined $5bn for Cambridge Analytica privacy violations – reports
The $5bn fine would be the largest ever levied by the Federal Trade Commission against a technology company
France hits back at US over tax on digital giants
US has said it will investigate planned levy on firms such as Amazon and Facebook
Facebook is ripe for exploitation – again – in 2020
Facebook claims to have cleaned up its act. But the platform remains vulnerable to the same sorts of divisive propaganda
Meet the millennials pretending to be baby boomers on Facebook
Online, you can be anyone. So why are millennials choosing to roleplay as baby boomers?
Lawyers are now free to cherrypick defamatory Facebook comments, looking for nuggets of gold
Social media comments are an online free-for-all. After the Dylan Voller case, media organisations have the impossible task of stemming the tide
Facebook ads funded by ‘dark money’ are the right’s weapon for 2020
The right and conservative media are using the untraceable ads to push a rightwing agenda and get Donald Trump re-elected
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp hit by media messaging outage
Facebook and Instagram report being ‘back at 100%’ after all three platforms were malfunctioning throughout the day
Google and Facebook under scrutiny over UK ad market dominance
Competition watchdog to investigate potential abuse of power and control of user data
‘Way ahead of the field’: inside Trump’s unprecedented social media campaign
Donald Trump spent more than $11.1m on Facebook and Google ads alone in the first six months of 2019
Libra: US Congress asks Facebook to pause development
Legislators say they need time to investigate cryptocurrency and its potential impact
Why Europe should build its own social platform for news
Public broadcast companies could join up to create a platform that values diversity and privacy, says media researcher Hossein Derakhshan
MPs call for urgent electoral law to cover digital campaigning
Select committee says delaying legislation for a few more years would be shortsighted