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Facebook President and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a hearing for the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee in Washington on October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday that the company will change its policies to ban hate speech in its ads. Under its …

Millions of children in Yemen are at risk of starvation amid the coronavirus pandemic, which is leading the war-torn nation to further devastation, the United Nations warned, calling for nearly $ 500 million in urgent humanitarian assistance. In a new report released on Friday, UNICEF, the UN children’s fund, said …

Unilever says it will stop advertising on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at least until the rest of the year, joining a number of companies that have withdrawn Facebook ads because of the social network’s failure to control racist and violent information. “Continuing to advertise on these platforms right now would …

LONDON – A teenager who admitted he tried to kill a 6-year-old boy by pushing him from an observation deck on the 10th floor in a shocking attack at London’s Tate Modern museum last year was sentenced to life in prison, but he must serve his sentence. at least 15 …

As coronavirus blockades loosen around the world, city leaders are struggling to tackle a new problem: the possibility of stagnation worse than before the pandemic. From Shenzhen to Milan and Austin, officials are trying to convince people to return to buses and subways and to demand space on the roads …