Sun to relax paywall as part of drive to exploit social media

Growth of news sharing on sites such as Facebook and Twitter prompts tabloid to make selected digital content available for free

The Sun is to start to make content available outside its digital paywall for the first time as the tabloid aims to capitalise on the explosion of news sharing on social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

Mike Darcey, the chief executive of News UK, said that from early July "select digital content" will be made available for free.