Police Scotland warns of rise in teens targeted as money mules

Gangs recruit schoolchildren to move the proceeds of crime through their own accounts

Regulating Facebook will be one of the greatest challenges in human history

Countries will need a creative and bold approach to address the social media giant with the power and money to absorb meager fines.

Facebook takes down far-right groups days before Spanish election

Investigation uncovered networks reaching 1.7m people that were spreading fake news

MPs criticise social media firms for failure to report criminal posts

Facebook, Google and Twitter condemned for not telling police about crimes on their platforms

Innovate? Big tech would rather throw us a broken Samsung Galaxy Fold

Again and again, technology companies show a peculiar disregard for users, writes author Charles Arthur

‘No right to livestream murder’: Ardern leads push against online terror content

New Zealand PM launches ‘Christchurch Call’ to build support to eliminate extremist material on social media

Secretive hard-Brexit Facebook campaign got 1m responses

Ads run by Lynton Crosby firm may have collected emails, says information commissioner

The only way to rein in big tech is to treat them as a public service

The drive for profit is behind many of the ills of Google, Facebook et al. Unions and public ownership are the only way to solve this, says academic Nick Srnicek

Facebook profits likely to fall after fake news and privacy scandals

Analysts predict first quarterly drop in earnings since 2015 on $3bn rise in turnover

Sri Lanka’s social media blackout reflects sense that online dangers outweigh benefits

Features that make Facebook so useful for spreading information have also made it potentially dangerous

My Ted talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair

For more than a year, the Observer writer has been probing a darkness at the heart of Silicon Valley. Last week, at a TED talk that became a global viral sensation, she told the tech billionaires they had broken democracy. What happened next?

Facebook bans far-right groups including BNP, EDL and Britain First

Number of organisations and individuals permanently banned for being ‘dangerous’