• ANALYSIS

For 14 years, Mark Zuckerberg was free to use any means he could to build his social network into a colossus.

Using a tool that Facebook offers its users, I found out more than I wanted to know about the social network, the ad industry and myself.

Facebook page had almost 700,000 followers and promoted fundraising that brought in at least $130,000, but it had no ties to the official grassroots campaign.

• OPINION

Who do you want to hold your information – the government, or a company aiming to maximise its own profit?

Facebook said it was working to reduce the hoaxes and false news stories that have plagued the world's largest social media network.

• ANALYSIS

As questions mounted last year about whether Facebook had been exploited to tilt the US presidential election, Mark Zuckerberg's to-do list landed him on a fishing trawler off Alabama's Gulf coast.

• OPINION

It's not only Facebook who's terrible at responding to scandals. Take Amazon, which typically reacts with all the empathy of a parking ranger on a bad day.

• OPINION

Are we consenting when we click 'yes' on a complicated terms of service? Or is it, as one privacy expert puts it, 'an absurd legal fiction'?

CEO Jack Dorsey says system should let users verify facts about themselves to prove their identity, without Twitter's judgement or bias.

Twitter just admitted it's become a swamp for toxic conversations.

A new web-based Snapchat feature allows users to share their stories with anyone who cares to tune in online.

Coalition of concerned experts, headed by former Google ethicist, plans an anti-tech-addiction lobbying effort and an ad campaign.

Anyone remember Ping - Apple's "music-oriented social network," the hot new thing back in 2010?

The company has also disclosed thousands of accounts that it said were associated with a Kremlin-linked troll farm.

Macquarie Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2017, and it's sent plenty of people scrambling to the Google search bar.

Australia's top Google searches range from slime and sport, to cryptocurrency, covfefe and hurricanes.

With its access to two billion users, Facebook’s advertising algorithm can make or break companies. It can even drive you crazy – as the founders of one successful start-up discovered.

 International Women's Day, the Melbourne Cup and our nation's same-sex marriage decision were on the minds of Australian Facebook users in 2017, the social media site reports.

Jeremy Burge has unwittingly become the world authority on those smiling poos and cats with hearts for eyes.

Twitter's iconic 140 character limit for tweets is no more.

Site's fact-checking partners say process is too cumbersome and inefficient to stop misinformation duplicating and spreading.

What started as a tweet highlighting the differences between the tech giants' burger emojis has ended in a suggestion that the debate might start World War III.

Twitter will tighten rules on issues including hate speech amid a boycott over its handling of actress Rose McGowan's postings on predatory Hollywood boss Harvey Weinstein.

Employees had begun using the group as a 'hub for employees who backed Donald Trump's candidacy' and 'conservative political debate that sometimes degenerated into racist or sexist comments', reports say.

It started back in 1998 as an April Fool's Day gag, but it's become a beloved part of the worldwide web.

• COMMENT

One of Mark Zuckerberg's top lieutenants was in Sydney this week to launch a charm offensive on local media executives amid a global backlash against Facebook and Google.

The original fact-checking site is asking for reader donations as it claims an advertising dispute has it 'in danger of closing its doors'.

A hoax message warning Facebook Messenger users not to accept friend requests from a "hacker" named Jayden K Smith has begun to circulate across the world, prompting confusion and an avalanche of memes.

The deep web and its inner recess, the dark web — those less well-trodden parts of the internet beyond the reach of Google and Bing — are not for the faint-hearted or untrained. With the right tools, however, there's little to fear and plenty to discover.