Social media is the most harmful online environment with 71 per cent of those who had experienced harm online through interaction with other internet users naming social media as the place where it had taken place, according to Ofcom. According...

Chancellor Philip Hammond has launched a review into a competition in the digital economy saying that people are concerned the tech giants “could be accumulating too much power in our new digital world.” The first meeting of an independent panel...

Dropping traditional media such as printed newspapers in favour of digital pureplay is wrong and ignores the growing body evidence that using traditional media has clear business benefits, PwC's Neil Duncan has said. In a piece for Mediatel this week,...

Fake news and disinformation spread by social networks has created a “crisis in our democracy” which must be confronted by making the tech companies take greater responsibility for misleading and harmful content on their sites, an influential Committee has...

Fake news and disinformation spread by social networks has created a “crisis in our democracy” which must be confronted by making the tech companies take greater responsibility for misleading and harmful content on their sites, an influential Committee has...

The Government is to review the UK’s competition regime to help address the challenges posed to the existing framework by ad-funded free digital services after calls for reform by the News Media Association and others. In its response to the...

Nearly $150 billion was wiped off the value of Facebook after the company warned that growth was slowing. Shares in the company plunged by almost 25 per cent in late trading after Facebook chief financial officer David Wehner told analysts...

The European Commission has fined Google €4.34 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. Since 2011, Google has imposed illegal restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators to cement its dominant position in general internet search, the Commission said...

The News Media Association has called for review and reform of the competition regulatory regime to help tackle the negative  impact of the tech giants upon the publishers of original news media journalism. In response to a BEIS consultation on...