May's Hacks/Hackers brought us AMP-based web-design, Facebook fact-checking, AI email checks, and a new organisation to support women in their careers.

Two moves from major platforms — one small, one major — suggest the right direction of travel.

Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy, has some compelling theories on how Facebook became whaat it is.

Live-blogged notes from Sarah Ellis’s talk at the Cool Content conference in Brighton.

The word "engagement" has been hollowed out by the social media gurus who have no concept of its sophistication.