‘Login with Snapchat’ takes cold war with Facebook to next level
Features for synching with other apps is most aggressive move yet to capitalise on Facebook’s problems
EU tech czar Margrethe Vestager: ‘Social media could deactivate democracy’
Competition regulator eschews a personal Facebook account ‘to give her children free space’
Facebook advertises for ‘fake news’ fact checkers
Firm changes initial ad for ‘news credibility specialists’ to ‘news publisher specialists’
Facebook apologizes for privacy glitch that affected up to 14 million users
Company says it will notify users affected by bug that led to posts being published publicly that were intended to be private
Turnbull would ‘love to see’ Facebook’s Zuckerberg face Australian MPs
Intelligence committee wants to know what data was shared with Chinese firms and why
Meet the people who still use Myspace: ‘It’s given me so much joy’
Once it was the biggest social network; now it’s a ghost town. But for a handful of hardcore users, Myspace remains essential
Australia drafts laws forcing Facebook and Google to reveal encrypted data
Security agencies would be given access to encrypted messaging apps under bid to ‘modernise’ laws
Political advertising online to be reformed, says UK data regulator
Twitter and Facebook told they will be held more responsible for the content they publish
Although we now live in a world of faked murders, the truth is still out there
Facts are a matter of life and death and lies increasingly difficult to discern. It is up to all of us to learn how to distinguish them
Teens are abandoning Facebook in dramatic numbers, study finds
Numbers using Facebook have dropped significantly since 2015, with YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat more popular
Pop, passion and enemas: how online forums created a new musical culture
In the first of a new monthly essay series on music, we explore how messageboards became a meeting point for 00s music fans – and how, after being killed off by social media, they might rise again
Papua New Guinea bans Facebook for a month to root out ‘fake users’
Analysts will explore how fake news and pornography spreads, and assess whether country needs its own version of the platform
Facebook and Google targeted as first GDPR complaints filed
Users have been forced into agreeing new terms of service, says EU consumer rights body
Facebook launches disclaimers on political ads showing who bought them
After controversy over Russian ads targeting US election, company creates searchable archive of political advertising
Child campaigners to Zuckerberg: scrap Messenger Kids
Renewed call to drop Facebook’s under-13s chat app backed by 21,000-strong petition