A-listers stop posting in social media freeze

NEW YORK: Celebrities including Katy Perry and Kim Kardashian will not post on Instagram or Facebook for 24 hours from Wednesday as part of a protest to pressure the world’s biggest social media firm to fight hate and disinformation.

Stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Michael B. Jordan have all expressed support for the freeze organized by “Stop Hate for Profit,” a coalition calling on Facebook, which owns Instagram, to change.