Jason Reed: Dowden’s latest task? Regulating the internet. Here’s what Australia can teach us about that challenge.

The UK has a lot to learn from the recent regulatory punch-up between Facebook and the Australian government.

Kate Dommett and Sam Power: We must act now to protect our elections from foreign interference

We are seeing the rise of the outrider. These ‘non-party campaigns’ often spring up in and around elections – with the public in the dark about their funding.

Facebook, Liz Truss and future challenges with the internet giants

The difficulties the Government has had with Apple and its contact tracing app demonstrates the need to break up power in big tech.

Be cautious when a watchdog bites its rivals

Fleet Street, normally a justified sceptic of men from the ministry controlling what people publish, is an enthusiast of regulating social media giants.

Dan Boucher: How to control Facebook’s use of our data

Social media providers should be required to present UK consumers with an ongoing, highly visible, simple, unavoidable choice over its use.

Iain Dale: A revitalised and purposeful May heads for the Welsh hills to call an election (just kidding, folks)

Plus: Gauke’s failure, UKIP chaos, Salmond’s Russia Today shame, Corbyn’s anti-semitism debacle…and an invitation if you live near Bath.

J P Floru: People only moan about the use of Facebook data when it is used by campaigns they dislike

If Hillary and Remain had won, using the same methods, would anyone at the Guardian or the BBC have cared a bean about Cambridge Analytica’s behaviour?