A supposedly “grassroots” anti-BBC social media campaign may not quite be what it seems.
Social media sites should face tougher laws, but education is also key to tackling online abuse.
Efforts to kick extremists off the internet can’t succeed and might even have the unintended side effect of bolstering support for radical groups.
As ever more young Britons head to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State, the government is left desperately seeking a strategy to combat the lure of recruitment to jihad.
As the France reels from the massacre of 13 people by three masked gunmen at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, social media users around the world have shown their support for the victims and freedom of the press with the hashtag #jesuischarlie.