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Facebook and Twitter took action against President Trump’s official and campaign accounts respectively on Wednesday, saying the accounts broke misinformation rules in posting a video clip in which the president says children are “almost immune” from COVID-19. Facebook removed the post of the video clip from a Fox News interview in which the president argues …

Goodnight, society as we knew it. Margaret Wise Brown’s 1947 children’s book “Goodnight Moon” has been reimagined for the time of the coronavirus. “Good Morning Zoom,” a parody version of the book by investment banker Lindsay Rechler and illustrator June Park, will be published by Penguin Random House in October. “It seemed fitting because ‘Goodnight …

The biggest lease of the year is done – and it’s momentous good news for a limping office-leasing market in a city beleaguered by the coronavirus. Facebook on Monday closed on a long-awaited deal for 730,000 square feet at Vornado’s Farley Building, the former post office site between Madison Square Garden and the Hudson Yards …

Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel “Rodham,” which came out earlier this summer, invites readers into a parallel universe — one in which Hillary stuck with her maiden name and broke up with Bill because she couldn’t see a long-term future with him. The book starts in 1971 with a young Hillary full of promise; she makes waves …

Facebook has inked deals with music giants that will let its billions of users watch hit music videos alongside viral cat clips and political rants, the company said Friday. Official music videos from artists such as Nicki Minaj, Bob Marley and the Jonas Brothers will go live on the social network Saturday thanks to Facebook’s …

Facebook’s stock price soared in premarket trading Friday as Wall Street cheered its resilient revenue growth despite the coronavirus pandemic and an advertising boycott. Facebook shares had climbed about 6.6 percent to $250.09 by 7:15 a.m. after it reported more than $18.6 billion in second-quarter revenues Thursday, an 11 percent jump from the same period …

A day after their leaders faced five hours of interrogation in Congress over allegations their power and influence is out of control, four of the biggest American tech companies saw their combined market value swell by $250 billion thanks to earnings that shocked even Wall Street. Shares of Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and …

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler on Wednesday accused Google and Facebook of being responsible for the demise of journalism in the US. Directly addressing Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, Nadler said that the two Silicon Valley titans “have gravely threatened journalism,” and described the news industry as being in “economic …

The time has come to imprison George R.R. Martin. “Game of Thrones” fans are holding the novelist to his promise that, should he not finish the next installment of his “A Song of Fire and Ice” book series by July 29, 2020, he formally consents to go to jail. “If I don’t have ‘The Winds …

House Democrats on Wednesday told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that he may have to spin off Instagram to comply with antitrust laws. The Federal Trade Commission allowed Facebook to acquire Instagram in 2012, but House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) said it wasn’t a closed case. “Mr. Zuckerberg, mergers and acquisitions that buy off …