Mediagazer: Nielsen announces it will begin crediting video views on Facebook, YouTube, and Hulu in its digital content ratings (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

12:00 AM ET, August 16, 2017

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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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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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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer moves to dark web after GoDaddy, Google bans, sharing its .onion address — Prominent neo-Nazi news site the Daily Stormer has apparently moved to the dark web after being denied domain registration from Google and GoDaddy. The site's status page tweeted a link …

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Morgan Little / CNET:

Reddit bans a subreddit after uproar led by r/AgainstHateSubreddits, and Facebook bans several group pages after Charlottesville attack — The Charlottesville tragedy has highlighted neo-Nazi communities across the internet. Reddit and Facebook are beginning to take action.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Daily Beast, Gizmodo, Engadget and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: Nielsen, MediaPost, SportTechie, Engadget, VideoNuze Analysis, Adweek and Axios

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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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.

Discussion: Newser, @drudge, TVWeek.com, Variety, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, Washington Post, The Wrap and The Week

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.

Discussion: Deadline, Variety, Mashable, /Film, Gizmodo, BGR, Refinery29, Business Insider and The Verge

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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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 …

Discussion: @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.

Discussion: Polygon and Business Insider

Meg Dalton / Columbia Journalism Review:

Q&A: NYT's Nick Casey on getting barred from Venezuela amid chaos — Nick Casey, The New York Times Andes bureau chief, in Caracas last year at a black market stall where goods that can't be found in Venezuelan stores are sold. (Meridith Kohut / The New York Times) — Democracy is coming to an end in Venezuela.

Discussion: @egabler and @caseysjournal