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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook is deleting posts linking to an obscene Daily Stormer article on Charlottesville victim, after initially being shared more than 65K times — Daily Stormer article violated community standards, company says — A blog post attacking a victim of white supremacist violence in Charlottesville …
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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
GoDaddy tells neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer it violated its ToS and to find a new domain provider, after it posted an obscene article about Charlottesville victim
GoDaddy tells neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer it violated its ToS and to find a new domain provider, after it posted an obscene article about Charlottesville victim
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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Google says it will cancel Daily Stormer's domain registration, shortly after site switched from GoDaddy; Zoho also says it'll stop providing services to site
Google says it will cancel Daily Stormer's domain registration, shortly after site switched from GoDaddy; Zoho also says it'll stop providing services to site
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Source: Laura Ingraham is in talks with Fox News about having her own show on the network, amidst speculation about a bigger schedule shake-up — Longtime Fox News contributor and fill-in host Laura Ingraham is in line for her own show on the channel, possibly in a key prime time hour.
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BBC:
Danish inventor Peter Madsen accused of negligent manslaughter after Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who was on board his submarine, goes missing — Swedish journalist Kim Wall, 30, has been missing since Thursday night. — Danish inventor Peter Madsen, on whose submarine she was last seen …
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Laura Wagner / Deadspin:
SB Nation's fan sites are run by low-paid contractors, who receive a monthly stipend of ~$600 per month, with posts by unpaid contributors, breaching Vox policy — Depending on who's defining it, to whom, and why, SB Nation is either a popular website best-known for puckish …
Washington Post:
On Tuesday morning, Trump retweeted an image of a “Trump train” running over a CNN reporter, days after Charlottesville tragedy, but later deleted it — President Trump's war with CNN went off the rails Tuesday morning after he retweeted an image of a Trump train running over a CNN reporter …
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Isabel Gottlieb / Bloomberg:
MoviePass drops subscription price to $9.95 a month, sells majority stake to Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc., plans to IPO by March 2018 — MoviePass wants to subsidize your film habit, letting you go to the theater once a day for about the price of a single ticket.
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Ramin Setoodeh / Variety:
In interview, Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says the streaming service will spend $7B on original content in 2018 — For a soft-spoken man, Ted Sarandos makes a lot of thunderous news. Just consider the headlines he's generated over the last week alone with a succession of game-changing deals.
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Shonda Rhimes is leaving ABC for Netflix, says the streaming service will provide her with greater creative freedom than network television
Shonda Rhimes is leaving ABC for Netflix, says the streaming service will provide her with greater creative freedom than network television
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Jessica Estepa / USA Today:
Trump's re-election campaign accuses CNN of censorship after the network refused to air its ad; CNN says it would run the ad if images of reporters removed — President Trump's re-election campaign said CNN had blocked its latest campaign ad, accusing the network of censorship.
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Raffi Khatchadourian / New Yorker:
Profile of WIkiLeaks' Julian Assange, on the DNC email hacks, Russia, state-sponsored leaks, the alt-right, and more — From his tiny sanctum in London, the founder of WikiLeaks has interfered with the world's most powerful institutions. — I. — The Ecuadorian Embassy in London …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sources: a crew is filming inside The New York Times for a documentary about the paper's coverage of the president — TALK ABOUT TIMING. THE DAY AFTER THE HORRIFIC EVENTS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN RELEASED A NEW AD. But instead of a message about something …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Walking Dead co-creator Robert Kirkman and the show's producers sue AMC, alleging breach of contract; potential damages could reach $1B — Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Glen Mazzara and David Alpert follow Frank Darabont in suing over the blockbuster zombie series, and potential damages could reach $1 billion.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Chris Castallo, formerly CBS's exec VP of alternate programming, joins Verizon's Go90 as head of development — Chris Castallo, who left as CBS's exec VP of alternative programming earlier this year, has joined Verizon as head of development for Go90. — Castallo reports to Ivana Kirkbride …