Elizabeth Warren talked about her plan to bust up Facebook, Apple and Google. Others questioned her idea, nobody suggested remaining totally hands off.

Tory MP and committee chairman Damian Collins said social media companies were failing in their duty of care to act against harmful content.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed plans for child psychologists to oversee social media content. It comes following the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell, from Harrow.

The Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Rev Rachel Treweek, has called on social media companies to do more to protect children online and suggested they should face government fines of up to £50 million.

Bradley Lepper tells how the Muskingum County, Ohio, Brush Creek Mound tablet came to be famous. Excavator John Everhart claimed it possessed inscriptions that were “chiefly Greek, commingled with Phoenician and Etruscan,” and therefore decidedly ancient. A fast internet search indicated that some have seriously tried to decipher the characters. But they were actually carved […]

In a marked break from official policy, the Chancellor (pictured in Downing Street yesterday) told executives Article 50 could potentially be ‘rescinded’, a leaked recording revealed.

The move comes as the Government’s price cap on energy finally starts to take effect – potentially saving 11million households an average of £75 a year.

Retailers were offering discounts of up to 90 per cent last night in an unprecedented wave of pre-Christmas sales that will hopefully see the year end on a high note.

A Parliamentary report said that since the problem was first raised four years ago, web giants had started to ‘engage more with this issue’, but this had led to ‘little tangible progress’.

Prince William visited the BBC in London today and took aim at social media giants claiming they needed to do more to stop the ‘poison’ of cyber-bullying and fake news online.