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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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …