The tech VC community shows its true face, social media gets toxic and… Oh, can we just have a break, please?

Your lunchtime digest of social and digital news, reminding us of Facebook's indifference, and the impact of Covid-19 on what is important reporting right now…

Lots of simmering tensions in politics and social media are coming to a head. Interesting timing…

As the social platforms empty their offices of staff, content moderation is taking a serious hit. Here's why.

As content moderators are sent home, AI tools are taking over their content policing job - and getting it wrong.

Another week, and more news from around the web for engaged journalists…

Connecting up some of the reporting about the use of misinformation and propaganda during the 2019 UK general election.

Five links on engaged journalism to see you through the morning coffee break

You don't know what you've got til it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a Facebook lot.

A short documentary about a Dad well and truly hooked on Facebook.

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.

Three talks from the April 2019 Hacks/Hackers London, from Finimize, the Engaged Journalism Accelerator and Privacy International

An inspiring - and fascinating - talk into how a simple feature put the Observer journalist on the trail of the biggest Facebook scandal.

The Christchurch attack was a terrorist event for the social media age. We need to address this situation on multiple levels to minimise the harm done.

Casey Newton has talked to many of Facebook's outsourced content moderators - and the picture is appalling.

Let me just clarify a few points in Zuckerberg's anniversary address…

For all the discussion about venture capital, and ad rates, and other scapegoats for tough time digital media's going through - a familiar company carries some of the blame.

Facebook gets caught abusing Apple's Enterprise Developer Program - and the consequences wreak havoc amongst its employees