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Holocaust survivors are demanding Facebook remove posts denying that the genocide they escaped ever happened. The survivors are speaking out in a social-media campaign launched Wednesday by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which argues that Facebook has been too lenient towards Holocaust deniers. The Claims Conference plans to post a new video …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will defend his company’s ownership of Instagram and WhatsApp to congressional lawmakers Wednesday amid calls to break up the powerful platforms. In prepared testimony to the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, Zuckerberg says Facebook has used its infrastructure to improve Instagram and WhatsApp in ways that benefitted users. “These benefits came …

Daniel Silva’s book “The Order,” out now, hits this week’s best-seller list. I stayed up all night reading it. So will you. The derring-do does with a biretta, a cassock, the papacy, Catholic conclave, prayer to prayer cardinals, a bishop or two and the Holy See. It’s anti-Semitism, Israelis, Europe, hatred, murder, the far right, …

Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg plans to defend the company in a hearing before the House antitrust subcommittee by arguing that hampering American technological innovation only aids China, a new report says. Congressional investigators have reviewed thousands of internal Facebook documents to piece together the company’s motivation for acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp and to …

Google will keep its employees working from home for at least another full year. Staff at the search giant — who were first sent home in March due to the coronavirus pandemic — are not expected to return in a large capacity until at least July 2021, according to the Wall Street Journal. The decision …

The Assistant Novel tends to be a gleeful “Gotcha” of the publishing world — a parting shot from a former assistant to the famous boss who made their life hell (the 2003 novel “The Devil Wears Prada” is the gold standard of the genre). But even though “A Star is Bored” by Byron Lane (Henry …

The House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel could release its report on antitrust allegations against four of the country’s largest tech juggernauts by late summer or early fall, senior committee aides said. The committee has received 1.3 million documents from Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google thus far as it investigates whether the companies’ business practices hurt …

Hulu is developing “Rodham,” a provocative take on one of the most famous female American politicians of the past two decades, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The drama series, based on the book by Curtis Sittenfeld, comes from “The Affair’ co-creator Sarah Treem, Fox 21 Television Studios and studio-based the Littlefield Company. “Rodham” imagines an alternative history …

President Trump’s re-election campaign is turning up the heat on TikTok. The campaign this week ran ads on Facebook claiming that the wildly popular, Chinese-owned social-media app is spying on its users, linking to a survey asking respondents whether it should be banned in the US. “TikTok is spying on you,” one of the ads …

After over three decades shooting the streets of NYC, Jeff Mermelstein shifted his camera’s lens to a more specific corner — New Yorkers’ text conversations. Mermelstein has been taking an ongoing series of photos since October 2017 documenting the bizarre messages people send to each other while out on the streets. The photos, which the …