Social media

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?

My membership of Puffin's book club was life-changing

The deferred pleasure of waiting for their magazine to drop through the letterbox was a childhood job

I miss Club Penguin and the noughties internet

The Wild West of today’s gaming and social media landscape makes me nostalgic for the halcyon days

Róisín Lanigan: the scrambled thinking behind ovulation mania

It’s more serious than memes and celebrity puff profiles in glossy magazines

Teens warned against TikToks that predict exam questions

Revision ‘shortcuts’ being spread by online influencers are misleading GCSE and A-level pupils, warn teachers