Facebook, Google campuses at risk of being flooded due to sea level rise

Forecasts show that Silicon Valley is at risk even under optimistic scenarios where rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions avoid the most severe increases

Friend Request review – another #social #media #horror

Following the obnoxious Unfriended, here is another shoddily scripted film in which vacant teenage Facebook addicts meet with gruesome endings

Facebook considers tip jar proposal as part of push to monetise posts

Opportunity to pay small amounts to favoured pages is being mooted along with other options. But would tipping really catch on on the social network?

Facebook is worried about users sharing less – but it only has itself to blame

Its business model relies on users sharing personal data instead of cat videos, but that is happening less and less – and it’s a devil of Facebook’s own making

The halal snack pack: a fast track to a heart attack? Or worse?

Nearly 90,000 people have joined the Halal Snack Pack Appreciation Society. Is this what Cory Bernadi was worried about?

Can the web save the press from oblivion?

Magazines and newspapers have been battered by the internet. But the industry could be about to fight back – with help from websites that aim to be the iTunes of journalism

Do you see Emperor Zuckerberg’s new clothes?

The Facebook boss cannot rule ever, no matter how many ‘new’ services his website provides

‘You want to know what they’re writing, even if it hurts’: my online abuse

In the early days, social media users thought it could be an egalitarian utopia; how wrong they were. Here are five tales from the frontline

European parliament approves tougher data privacy rules

‘Groundbreaking’ changes strengthen EU privacy protections, enshrine right to be forgotten and give regulators wide-reaching powers

What you missed at Facebook’s F8 developer event – at a glance

Artificial intelligence, virtual reality and chatbots – Facebook 2016 developer event revealed ambitious plans for expanding its social empire

The Guardian view on online abuse: building the web we want

Editorial: The freedoms of the internet are too often abused. Tech companies need to face up to the problem, and so – in close consultation with their readers – do publishers, including the Guardian

Top tech firms urged to step up online abuse fightback

Facebook, Google and Twitter are working with women’s groups to challenge hate speech – but critics attack secrecy over scale of problem

‘Image may contain… cat?’ – now Facebook can talk you through your photos

Blind users of the social network can have images described to them – although we shouldn’t stop captioning and tagging just yet

Greens’ advert causes social media storm as kids play politicians

Party’s ad agency sought a ‘podgy boy with a shock of white/blonde hair’ to play Boris Johnson in Westminster spoof

Facebook’s Oculus hit by fears it will spy on users and pass on data

Virtual reality firm says it isn’t sharing information, such as physical movements of owners, with the social network – yet