It’s time for tighter regulation of how Facebook and Google use our data | Peter Lewis

Big tech's power has reached a tipping point. Governments must set some ground rules

In his trademark disingenuous response to the latest wave of massacres, Donald Trump has identified the internet as both the cause and, more insidiously, the solution to the spread of rightwing domestic terrorism.

Ignoring his own hate-filled social media feeds and fervent embrace of gun denial-ism, the US president has set his sites on the "dark recesses" of the internet, where hatred foments through "gruesome and grisly" video games that celebrate violence.