The Country Life publisher has appointed Meta’s Ivana Kirkbride to its board as a non-executive director from 15 December.

Shareholders with a controlling interest influence not only financial matters but can also wield great power over policy and politics.

A Meta stockholder alleges that the company’s business model failed to consider the risks to society and to ‘diversified stockholders’.

The company has scrutinised the risks of Facebook and WhatsApp, but stops short of publicly committing to all the actions recommended.

An analysis of the effects of a wide variety of business scandals shows that only rarely is the effect as severe as we might imagine.

Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft face scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission over whether acquisitions of small tech firms were “anticompetitive”.

The independent board will seek to provide a detached application of Facebook’s ethical standards to improve the governance of social media content.

Legal and regulatory news from around globe, including the new UK stewardship code, clarification of Singapore M&A rules, new EU regulations for the gig economy and Facebook’s appeal against German data ruling.

Can the weight of some of the biggest and most influential investors persuade the likes of Facebook to alter multiple tiers of voting rights?

Dual-class shares are causing friction between institutional shareholders and stock exchanges across the globe, and big tech firms are the driving force behind it. How will it all pan out? And how will it affect corporate governance?