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Millennials used to mock their parents’ sepia-tinted Facebook posts. Now they’re the ones yearning for a simpler time - before student debt and existential angst

The former deputy PM wants you to listen to his big ideas about the EU. But does anyone care?

The US giants have become sprawling conglomerates, precisely the kind of fat, complacent companies they once set out to disrupt

Meta firing its fact-checkers is about more than sucking up to Trump. It kickstarts a global fight over the rules of the internet and free speech

UK police are investigating the first sexual assault in a virtual reality world. Does the future look like this?

The need to tackle the likes of Google and Facebook is obvious. But is Brussels fighting the right battles?

The QAnon cult is spreading – with deadly consequences. How can we stop it and its successors?

When he relocates to London in the Autumn, Clegg would be foolish to expect his return to be embraced with open arms

Facebook has removed a video of Donald Trump from his daughter-in-law’s page. Trump was banned from the social media platform in the wake of the riots at the US Capitol in January. An interview with the former president by Lara Trump, a new Fox News contributor, had been posted to her Facebook page, but later […]

A DUP MP has been referred to the Westminster Standards Commissioner following a Facebook post in which he criticised the “BBC at its BLM worst” (Black Lives Matter) over the ethnic make-up of a Songs of Praise gospel show. East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell made the comment in a January 31 post. It stated: “Just watched […]

As Britain’s vaccine rollout gets further through the population, it’s challenges are going to mount, explains JAMES BALL. In this long, grey, lockdown winter there is only one real hope of a sustainable way to open up during the spring: the mass rollout of coronavirus vaccines. The comforting fact is there is a lot of […]

Members of the public and politicians are up in arms after it emerged a Tory MP, who does not classify as vulnerable under government vaccine guidelines, received a coronavirus jab. Bassetlaw MP Brendan Clarke-Smith wrote on Friday on Facebook that “as a volunteer, I was also asked to have a vaccine” beside a photo of himself receiving […]

The president’s removal from the social network could create yet another cultural chasm between Democrats and Republicans. “Hello, I’m new to Twitter, what are you guys up to”, says a tweet purporting to be from someone called John Barron – whose avatar resembles Donald Trump with a photoshopped moustache. On Friday, Trump’s Twitter account was […]

New document have revealed Matt Hancock backtracked on tough tech laws following a meeting with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Then culture secretary, Hancock promised the “tone” of new regulations would shift after Zuckerberg hinted he might pull plans to invest in the UK. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) obtained minutes from the secretive meeting via […]

Older women are being “groomed” on Facebook and are quickly adopting more radical views, claims academic SUE GREENWOOD. A headteacher in Stoke-on-Trent told me that, alongside ensuring a COVID-safe return to school for her pupils this September, she’s having to reassure parents that their children will not be forcibly taken away and isolated in a […]