Privacy concerns and ad-dominated feeds have mainstream social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram facing a ‘trust crisis’. Subscription-based platform Vero offers an alternative with the promise of transparency and control – but is it so different from established industry giants?

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the majority of Facebook users are feeling more concerns about their privacy, with most of them self-censoring what they post. However, with the service seen as too essential to socialising, these concerns haven't led to a mass exodus.

Web giants such as Facebook and Google have woven themselves into billions of lives, but countless controversies over the years have a growing number of users questioning if they can trust these companies. How are data breaches and fake news changing people’s relationships with big tech?

Research shows YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat are more popular than Facebook among American teenagers. As the platform becomes more institutionalised, its user base is ageing and younger users are switching to more exciting and visual platforms for self expression.