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?

‘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

Miitomo first look review – is Nintendo’s mobile app any good?

Sorry folks, no Mario, Zelda or Animal Crossing yet: the company’s new app is a quirky social communications tool based around Mii avatars

Microsoft’s racist chatbot returns with drug-smoking Twitter meltdown

Short lived return saw Tay tweet about smoking drugs in front of the police before suffering a meltdown and being taken offline

Facebook’s censorship of Aboriginal bodies raises troubling ideas of ‘decency’

Facebook happily hosts Kim Kardashian’s cleavage, but suspended users posting images of topless Aboriginal women for ‘violating community standards’. Leigh Alexander wonders, just whose standards are we talking about?

Facebook’s ‘ethnic affinity’ advertising sparks concerns of racial profiling

Advertisers can target African American-, Asian American- and Hispanic-affiliated groups through the site