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Social networking

August 2024

  • Nigel Farage checking his phone

    Reform UK tracked private user information without consent

    Observer reveals potentially millions of people had data shared with Facebook for use in targeted advertising

July 2024

  • Outdoor picture of blue and black Meta logo on white background.

    Strong earnings report pushes Meta shares up amid heavy AI spending

  • A man wearing a black T-shirt and a gold necklace speaks into a microphone

    Meta reaches $1.4bn settlement with Texas over privacy lawsuit

  • Adrian Chiles

    How do young people ever get any work done? They’re always so distracted

    Adrian Chiles
  • Social media algorithms

    We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny

  • Meta expands hate speech policy to remove more posts targeting 'Zionists'

  • Meta claims news is not an antidote to misinformation on its platforms

  • ‘Blunt-force approach’: LGBTQ+ advocates say proposed teen social media ban overlooks benefits

  • FarmVille at 15: how a cutesy Facebook game shaped the modern internet

  • Meta accused of breaking EU digital law by charging for ad-free social networks

June 2024

  • Alex Hern

    Could big tech eventually face its USSR moment and collapse completely?

    Alex Hern
  • Andrew Forrest

    Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest can sue Meta over Facebook scam ads, US court rules

  • A man in a surgeon general's uniform speaks into a microphone

    US surgeon general calls for cigarette-style warnings on social media platforms

  • woman holding a cell phone in front of a Facebook logo

    My Facebook profile was hacked but all the platform offered was a faceless void

    Nicola Markus
  • Tories pursuing ‘ostrich strategy’ on Facebook campaign ads

  • ‘The first TikTok election’: are Sunak and Starmer’s digital campaigns winning over voters?

  • Labour is already dominating the online general election campaign

May 2024

  • AI generated image of Jesus with the body of a lobster

    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
  • A bearded Jack Dorsey

    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
  • Young man looking at a mobile phone

    Thinktank warns Australian misinformation laws should not be based on voluntary industry code

    Experts find ‘significant gaps between statement and practice’ of social media firms’ enforcement of standards
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