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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 …

Twenty-five years ago this July, the film world was forever changed by two little words: As if! Amy Heckerling’s “Clueless,” a riff on the Jane Austen novel “Emma,” starred 18-year-old Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz, a Beverly Hills teenager who ruled her high school with equal parts charm and obliviousness — and a whole new …

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 …

YouTube star Jenna Marbles says she’s signing off… for now. The YouTube star, whose real name is Jenna Mourey, announced Thursday via her channel that she will no longer be producing content due the backlash she has faced over past videos, including several in which she dons blackface. In a video called “A Message,” Mourey …

Ariana Grande made her relationship with boyfriend Dalton Gomez Instagram official late Thursday, just hours before her 27th birthday. The “Sweetener” singer posted a series of photos and videos that includes shots with Gomez, as well as her dogs and best friend Doug Middlebrook, and captioned them, “almost 27 :)” Page Six confirmed in March that …

A Facebook ad boycott gathered more steam on Thursday, when telecom giant Verizon said it would pull ads in July over criticisms of the social media giant’s failure to monitor hate speech. The “Stop the Hate for Profit” campaign had already convinced Unilever-owned ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s to join the campaign, as well …

Cardi B is calling out the allegedly fake Instagram account she believes is responsible for #CardiBIsOverParty trending on Twitter. On Thursday, the Grammy winner took to social media to clear her name after the account attacked Cardi’s former rival Nicki Minaj, as well as Ariana Grande, Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat. The “Press” rapper, …

“Real Housewives of New York” newbie Leah McSweeney is furious about co-star Ramona Singer’s travels during the coronavirus pandemic. McSweeney, 37, went on an Instagram tear after Singer, 61, and her 25-year-old daughter, Avery, traveled from New York to quarantine in Boca Raton, Fla., in March and then returned home about a week ago as …

As if the world wasn’t getting dystopian enough. An enterprising sci-fi film crew has devised an ingenious way to shoot their film while circumventing coronavirus concerns — by casting a real-life A.I. robot named Erica. The move marks the first time a movie will star an artificially intelligent actor, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “She …

The head of the NAACP called Facebook a major threat to democracy amid a growing advertising boycott over the social-media giant’s approach to hate speech. “They are probably one of the biggest threats to democracy that we see,” Derrick Johnson, the civil-rights group’s president and CEO, said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “They have fanned …