Review of the media in 2012: Secrets from beyond the grave
22 December 2012 12:00 AM
'The public now finds itself feeling gullible and betrayed'
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U-turn for Instagram as it scraps controversial changes
21 December 2012 05:37 PM
Online uproar forces photo-sharing service to backtrack on changes to privacy terms
Instagram faces backlash over plans to sell users' photos
18 December 2012 05:46 PM
Instagram is facing a backlash from its users after revealing it is to change its terms to allow the sale of people’s photographs to advertisers without telling them.
Ministers reject automatic web porn filter
15 December 2012 12:56 PM
Ministers have rejected calls for internet providers to be forced to automatically filter websites for online pornography.
Pope Benedict XVI: God's representative on Twitter sends first message
12 December 2012 07:03 PM
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was... 'Dear'
Clashes over Internet regulation during UN talks
03 December 2012 12:18 PM
Concerns raised by tech giants that new rules could be used by China and Russia to justify further online monitoring
Convicted paedophile wins Facebook injunction to shut down 'keeping our kids safe from predators' page as judge rules it infringes sex offender's human rights - and yet within hours a second page appears
30 November 2012 08:06 PM
Just hours after a judge ordered a Facebook page set up to monitor paedophiles to be taken down, a page with an almost identical name has appeared on the social networking site.
Reporting: The news outlets that can't handle the spoof
28 November 2012 07:30 PM
Who gets your vote for sexiest man alive? Ryan Gosling? Johnny Depp? What about George Clooney? Well, The Onion went with the less chiselled, but more powerful, Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea. "Kim made this newspaper's editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, that famous smile," read the article.
Tajikistan blocks Facebook access to silence critics of president
27 November 2012 02:07 PM
Tajikistan has blocked access to Facebook in response to a slew of comments spreading "mud and slander" about veteran President Imomali Rakhmon and officials in the Central Asian republic.
Cyber Culture: BuzzFeed - an unlikely investor in the future of longform journalism?
14 November 2012 08:30 PM
There are many ways for people to register their disapproval of something you've written and posted online, from a simple thumbs-down to a sustained campaign of harassment culminating in the imposition of a restraining order. But the most withering are those replies that simply read "TLDR" – or "too long, didn't read". It's become shorthand for our supposed intolerance for writing that extends beyond bullet points, an affirmation that lengthy tracts of prose belong to a pre-internet era. But maybe this is all a fallacy.
Twitter: No end of the Piers pain in sight
04 November 2012 10:30 PM
Despite juggling careers on both sides of the Atlantic, it takes more than mere time zones to hinder Piers Morgan's relentless presence on Twitter at any given hour.
Online decorum: A long, hard day of being nice on the internet
03 November 2012 12:00 AM
Challenged to follow Debrett’s ‘Netiquette’, Twitterholic Grace Dent managed about 10 minutes
Could a 17-year-old boy from Wimbledon transform how you read news on your phone? Nick D'Aloisio launches his Summly app today backed by Stephen Fry and Rupert Murdoch
01 November 2012 01:00 PM
Nick D'Aloisio is on sabbatical from his London school, where he is yet to take his A-levels. Last Sunday, just before the onset of Hurricane Sandy, he boarded a last plane out of New York's JFK airport to return to England in time for the global launch of his revolutionary iPhone app today, his 17th birthday.
A media storm: Why the way we talk about the weather has changed forever
31 October 2012 08:00 PM
Predicting the weather is no longer a mug’s game - it’s a social one. David Kenny, the king of US weather forecasts talks to Geoffrey Macnab.
Ancestry.com: Money grows on family trees
24 October 2012 01:33 AM
The site has just been sold for £1bn. Simon Usborne charts its founders’ histories, and how they made a mint out of your Great Auntie Mabel
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After the slaughter at Sandy Hook school, America's firearms debate intensifies
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Red Princes and Princesses: Labour grandees' offspring are following in their parents' footsteps
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Rage at brutal rape erupts in India
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Chechnya: Russia closes paper after journalists laugh at Vladimir Putin
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MORE guns in schools: NRA’s plan to thwart the next Lanza
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Public Enemies: The UK's 'Most Hated' list
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Lostprophets express 'shock' at bandmate Ian Watkins' arrest on child sex charges
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Alex Ferguson to look into small print of Cristiano Ronaldo's contract
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