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2:00 PM ET, August 15, 2017

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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
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
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 …
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: Business Insider
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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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Mediaite
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.
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 …
 
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
SEC filing: 21st Century Fox has paid $50M for Fox News settlements related to sexual harassment and discrimination in fiscal 2017
Discussion: The Wrap
Dani Deahl / The Verge:
Pandora names Sling TV founding CEO Roger Lynch as new CEO and president; Snap Inc. chairman Michael Lynton is also joining the Pandora board
New York Times:
How Sinclair is ridding itself of regulatory burdens, including a cap on ownership for broadcast TV stations, with the aid of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook is rolling out a “Trending News” section in its iOS and Android apps; on iOS, it's accessible via a link from the app's main navigation
Discussion: BetaNews, Engadget and MacRumors