Strong earnings report pushes Meta shares up amid heavy AI spending
Stock price grew around 5%, which revealed the company outperformed analysts’ expectations for its second quarter
How do young people ever get any work done? They’re always so distracted
Decades ago, I got a job as a scaffolder – and I was a total liability. I’d have been even more useless if mobile phones had been around, writes Adrian Chiles
We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny
Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight
Meta claims news is not an antidote to misinformation on its platforms
Company says it has ‘never thought about news’ as a way to counter misleading content on Facebook and Instagram despite evidence to the contrary
‘Blunt-force approach’: LGBTQ+ advocates say proposed teen social media ban overlooks benefits
Amid bipartisan support for restricting teenagers’ access to social networks, young queer people fear isolation and loss of community
Meta accused of breaking EU digital law by charging for ad-free social networks
European Commission objects to ‘pay or consent’ model for users of Facebook and Instagram
Could big tech eventually face its USSR moment and collapse completely?
The end of the all-powerful social networks seems inconceivable, but the disintegration of the Soviet giant once did too
US surgeon general calls for cigarette-style warnings on social media platforms
Dr Vivek Murthy asks for required labels that state ‘social media is associated with significant mental health harms’
My Facebook profile was hacked but all the platform offered was a faceless void
With no number or email to contact, I was left fearing the loss of my account and wondering: how has social media come to this?
Tories pursuing ‘ostrich strategy’ on Facebook campaign ads
Party is focusing on 80 seats it came closest to losing in last election and 20 seats it came closest to winning
‘The first TikTok election’: are Sunak and Starmer’s digital campaigns winning over voters?
The Tories and Labour are forking out more than ever on social media ads, but going viral isn’t easy. We speak to influencers and strategists about the messages and memes
Labour is already dominating the online general election campaign
Starmer’s party was quicker out of the digital gate, with slicker, more engaging content than the Tory offering, writes Matthew McGregor
Spam, junk … slop? The latest wave of AI behind the ‘zombie internet’
Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impact
Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk’s X
Twitter co-founder’s decision to leave rival social network he helped start was apparently unexpected
Fears of Putin swinging elections behind EU’s Meta crackdown
Action against Facebook owner comes amid concerns about how it is dealing with fake news