Facebook limits WhatsApp message forwarding to just five people, down from the previous 20
A new regulatory body is needed to police social media firms' 'very disturbing' use of personal data for political purposes,…
Publishes data sets of millions of tweets, images and videos from accounts linked to Russia and Iran
US election clampdown, but meantime in the UK it pledges to make political adverts “transparent”
Facebook is deleting hundreds of American accounts and pages for “inauthentic activity”
Social media giants remove hundreds of accounts linked to propaganda campaigns from Iran and Russia
Dozens of accounts were involved in 'coordinated inauthentic behaviour', but Facebook stops short of saying Russia's to blame
Massacre of the trolls as micro-blogging service shuts down 70 million fake and suspicious accounts
Facebook founder refuses to attend parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee
No evidence the Russians used social media to influence British vote to exit European Union, says Facebook
Heightened sensitivity about political interference on social media results in new rules from Twitter
Attackers are now making use of 'sponsored content' networks such as Taboola to insert malicious content into trusted sites, researchers…
It's now easier for users to follow their favourite topics and fact-check new stories
Users will now be able to flag offensive, harmful and misleading Google Search results
'Fake news' scourge tackled by Facebook after it closes 30,000 fake accounts in France
The British web inventor urged more effective regulation of targeted political adverts drawing on vast stores of personal data
Companies algorithms should be made transparent to government for industrial regulation to be effective, the party argues
ANALYSIS: With the possibility that fake news may have impacted the US election, people are giving a new look to…
Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and others not reaching self-imposed targets for reviewing reported content, European justice commission finds