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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
In the wake of a killing after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, tech firms are setting aside content neutrality in the fight against online hate — Content-neutrality concerns take a back seat after a killing at a white nationalist rally — This morning, the neo-Nazi website …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook is deleting posts linking to a Daily Stormer article that attacked Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer, after article was shared more than 65K times — Daily Stormer article violated community standards, company says — A blog post attacking a victim of white supremacist violence …
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer moves to dark web after GoDaddy, Google bans, sharing its .onion address
Neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer moves to dark web after GoDaddy, Google bans, sharing its .onion address
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Motherboard, The Guardian and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »
Morgan Little / CNET:
Reddit bans a subreddit after uproar led by r/AgainstHateSubreddits, and Facebook bans several group pages after Charlottesville attack
Reddit bans a subreddit after uproar led by r/AgainstHateSubreddits, and Facebook bans several group pages after Charlottesville attack
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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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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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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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Laura Wagner / Deadspin:
SB Nation's fan sites are run by low-paid contractors, who receive a 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, irreverent coverage …
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@byrosenberg and @readdanwrite
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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Business Insider and Polygon
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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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen announces it will begin crediting video views on Facebook, YouTube, and Hulu in its digital content ratings — Nielsen is set to expand its digital-measurement capabilities, and will start crediting video content distributed on Facebook, Hulu and YouTube in with its digital content ratings.
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MediaPost, Nielsen, Multichannel News, SportTechie, VideoNuze Analysis, Axios and Adweek
Bloomberg:
Sources: Mashable is exploring strategic options including a sale of all or part of the firm; company says it hired LionTree Advisors months ago to seek capital — Mashable Inc. is exploring strategic options including the sale of all or part of the online media company, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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@lucas_shaw, Thanks:@whatthebit
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 …
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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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