The German Federal Cartel Office’s decision to order Facebook to change how it processes users’ personal data this week is a sign the anti...

Is Europe closing in on an antitrust fix for surveillance technologists?
The German Federal Cartel Office’s decision to order Facebook to change how it processes users’ personal data this week is a sign the anti...
Facebook removes hundreds of accounts linked to fake news group in Indonesia
Facebook said it has removed hundreds of Facebook and Instagram counts with links to an organization that peddled fake news. The world’s fourth ...

Scooter startup Bird tried to silence a journalist. It did not go well.
Cory Doctorow doesn’t like censorship. He especially doesn’t like his own work being censored. Anyone who knows Doctorow knows his popular...

A simple bug makes it easy to spoof Google search results into spreading misinformation
A bug that anyone can easily exploit in Google makes it easy to kick out manipulated search results that look entirely real. The search manipulation b...

Facebook and PayPal pull pages of far-right British activist filmed intimidating public figures
Facebook has confirmed it has removed the pages and profiles of a far-right political activist in the U.K. after concerns were raised in parliament ab...
Test your tech knowledge in TechCrunch’s 2018 Year In Tech Quiz
Think you know tech? Square off against TechCrunch editors with 2018’s year in tech quiz. TechCrunch’s 2018 Year In Tech Quiz Square off a...

Let’s meet in Poland this month
I’ll be heading back to Europe on December 18th to run a pitch-off in Wroclaw, Poland. It’s a bit out of the way but well worth a visit if...

Let’s meet in Poland this month
I’ll be heading back to Europe on December 18th to run a pitch-off in Wroclaw, Poland. It’s a bit out of the way but well worth a visit if...
Facebook policy VP Richard Allan to face the international ‘fake news’ grilling that Zuckerberg won’t
An unprecedented international grand committee comprising 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions to ...