Facebook says it has deleted more than 650 accounts with Iranian and Russian links that were trying to "manipulate" and "mislead" users. Twitter has banned more than 200 accounts for the same reason. The investigation to uncover the rogue accounts took many months, the BBC reports.

It's one of those surveys that will have you thinking "really?" According to Rakuten Marketing, nearly half of shoppers have already started buying for Christmas. According to Netimperative, the big takeaway is that fashion can expect a good second half as 57% of online shoppers are preparing to purchase clothes in the run-up to Christmas, a 6% lift on the usual figure.

She is about to hit the screens of Netflix subscribers as Queen Elizabeth II in the next installment of "The Crown" but Olivia Colman can lay claim to another title. "The Guardian" reports she has been named the most powerful person in British television by the "Radio Times" magazine.

Sky is rethinking how it goes about branding itself and is asking four agencies to pitch for the role of being the single agency through which the brand is reshaped and positioned, Campaign reveals.

"Press Gazette" is leaping to the defence of press regulation rules at IPSO that require a newspaper to enter into arbitration with complainants. Fears have been expressed that the cost of the scheme could bankrupt publishers but the site points out that most complainants do not require payment but would rather set the record straight. Arbitration could help build better trust, it argues.

India's answer to Uber is coming to the UK. According to "The Telegraph," it has just launched a pilot service in South Wales ahead of an expansion into Manchester. It is believed the Ola service will be available nationwide by the end of the year.

An interesting opinion piece in Mediatel today advises marketers that although data allows retailers to target in real-time, the demographics data they may be ignoring can actually be of much more use than they think, and there's research to back this up.

Four in ten Brits believe that addiction to technology is just as real as addiction to alcohol or drugs, according to research from the7stars covered in Mobile Marketing.

"Mobile Marketing" is reporting on press coverage over the weekend and today that the EU is considering a draft proposal that would make all terrorist content illegal and impose big fines on social media giants who do not take it down quickly enough.

Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is to deliver the "alternative" MacTaggart lecture in Edinburgh this week, in which he is expected to criticise tech firms' influence in the UK media, "The Guardian" reveals.