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Facebook’s Instagram app will reportedly launch a new service in the coming weeks that copies the wildly popular features of the controversial TikTok app. Instagram Reels — which, like TikTok, allows users to make 15-second video clips set to music — will make its global debut soon as TikTok faces growing scrutiny over its Chinese …

A third of the world’s small businesses slashed jobs as the coronavirus ate into their sales and forced many to shut down, a new survey shows. The figures released Tuesday detail a bleak landscape for small merchants around the globe as they grapple with COVID-19 and the massive economic crisis it has caused. Some 33 …

Grant Morrison has been riding out the coronavirus pandemic at a safe distance from Hollywood. “As a writer, you’re self-isolating your entire life anyway,” Morrison says from his home in his native Scotland. “So it hasn’t been that difficult. We’re in the country, so you barely notice what’s been going down. But we’re looking at …

From THE DIVINE MISS MARBLE: A Life of Tennis, Fame and Mystery by Robert Weintraub, to be published July 14 by Dutton, an imprint of The Penguin Publishing Group, a member of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2020 by Robert Weintraub The Swiss Alps dominated the landscape. The mountains didn’t know it was 1945, …

Facebook is considering a ban on political ads for the run-up to the 2020 general elections, Bloomberg reported on Friday. While the ban is currently under discussion, there are no immediate plans for its implementation. There are reportedly concerns that such a ban could hinder efforts to encourage people to vote, even as Facebook would not be …

The president and CEO of the NAACP is ready for a long-haul battle with Facebook. In an interview with The Post, Derrick Johnson said he and other civil rights organizers will keep up the heat on the social network until it makes concrete changes to help curb misinformation and hate speech on its platform. Johnson, …

Facebook has reportedly banned all ads on behalf of Laura Loomer, the frontrunner in the GOP primary race for House candidate in Florida’s 21st district. Loomer’s personal account is banned on Facebook, as well as on Facebook-owned Instagram, and her campaign was prevented from creating a page to reach voters on Facebook last November. Now …

Mark Zuckerberg has bent Facebook’s guiding principles in order to keep Donald Trump’s posts on the site, according to documents and interviews obtained by a newspaper. The Facebook CEO is confronting a company in crisis, as employees publicly protest against his failure to challenge Trump and advertisers boycott the firm in response. On Sunday Starbucks …

Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will accelerate a crackdown on hate speech — less than an hour after consumer-products giant Unilever announced it was yanking all Facebook ads for the rest of the year. In a striking about-face in a controversy that has increasingly engulfed the social network, Facebook’s 35-year-old boss on Friday said Facebook will …

Facebook is reportedly scrambling to stop the growing chorus of calls to boycott advertising on its platform. The social network — which in recent weeks has seen the likes of Patagonia, Verizon and Ben & Jerry’s commit to stop running ads on its site — has been meeting with advertisers and ad agencies to reassure …