Social media

Musk sank Twitter, but his $44bn purchase has fuelled his rise

Three years since the world’s richest man rebranded the social media platform as X, it is awash with racism and conspiracy theories – but remains a powerful tool in his arsenal

Messageboard 4chan refuses to pay fine over ‘free speech’

The US messageboard is openly defying British regulators and refusing to comply with the Online Safety Act

Social media is just TV now – and we can’t stop changing the channel

Big tech’s biggest players are aggressively competing with TikTok’s clip-based offering – and that is cutting the social from social media

MrBeast’s bank is one more step towards an influencer-run dystopia

The world’s most popular YouTuber has plans to create a banking app

Here’s a video I’d like to share: Trump bagging TikTok for his investor pals

By overruling Congress’s ban on the Chinese platform, the US president has richly rewarded his tech and media allies

Tech moguls close to Trump take ownership of TikTok in US

The agreement could deepen conservative control over the US media landscape

Calum Harper lays it all on the table

The British fashion model on how his candid videos of life in the industry made him a social-media favourite

MI6 joins Instagram in hunt for next generation of spies

Secret service embraces social media in recruitment drive to find the next generation of spies

Jesse Jenkins: ‘Aubergine parm has taken me a long way’

The Instagram food influencer talks us through his signature dish

Feeling lonely? Try getting sweaty at a gig

The more we lose touch with everything except our own little gangs, the more everyone outside our narrow frames of reference seems alien and unrelatable

Children can’t be safe online. We will have to carry on policing them

The online safety bill is already restricting liberty – and is unlikely to protect the vulnerable

Social media blocking apps are addicting to us too

The tech originally designed to sever dependency on social media has evolved to be the problem

Musk’s chatbot praises Hitler then says ‘sorry, my bad, I fell for a hoax’

Grok AI had been instructed not to ‘shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect’

I quit Instagram. This is what I lost

Olivia Ovenden broke up with social media after her divorce. She didn’t anticipate the difficulty of splitting from her virtual self

Just like Charlize, I have no-go photos

A-list star Charlize Theron has revealed the photos that make her squirm on Raya, but everyone’s icks are different. Here are mine

The battle of Tattle: gossip victims call for website to shut

Public figures tell of impact on their mental health after being targeted by Tattle Life

Groundhog day: another deadline extension leaves TikTok sale in purgatory

Trump is unwilling to let the app go dark and unable to get a deal done

The dangers of the social media disaster chasers

Strangers spread the news about victims of the Air India crash before their families were notified. What happened to respect for privacy?