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Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple has set a budget of ~$1B to procure and produce original content over the next year, could acquire and produce as many as 10 TV shows — Company immediately becomes a considerable competitor in crowded market for original shows — Apple Inc. AAPL 1.09% has set a budget …
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John Daniszewski / Associated Press:
AP's VP for Standards, John Daniszewski, says the news organization should avoid the term “alt-right” as it is a euphemism disguising racist aims — At AP, we have taken the position that the term “alt-right” should be avoided because it is meant as a euphemism to disguise racist aims.
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
A new episode of Game of Thrones was accidentally aired on HBO Nordic and HBO Espana, with the leak then spreading to file-sharing sites — Though the episode was posted for a “brief” amount of time, the leak quickly spread on the Internet early Wednesday. — It's a case of deja vu for HBO.
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CNN:
White House confirms that Hope Hicks is its interim communications director — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Senior communications adviser Hope Hicks will likely take on the role of White House communications director, according to two sources inside the White House and one outside.
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Laurel Wamsley / NPR:
Hosting provider DreamHost is resisting a DOJ warrant which it claims requires the company to hand over the details of 1.3M visitors to an anti-Trump site — At the intersection where protections against unreasonable search and seizure meet the rights to free speech and association, there's a now web hosting company called DreamHost.
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Jason Guerrasio / Business Insider:
A day after MoviePass announces its new $10 a month plan, AMC Theaters says it is consulting with attorneys as to whether it can block the service — Following the surprising news on Tuesday that MoviePass would begin a $9.95-a-month subscription service in which members can see one movie …
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The Conversation:
A look at potential hazards of news outlets increasingly receiving capital from billionaires — On July 28, Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs bought a majority stake in The Atlantic. — It's the latest media purchase by the billionaire class, a group that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos …
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
The Young Turks Network partners with Verizon's Go90 to air 16-episode docu-series on climate change exclusively on the streaming service this fall — The show, called ‘True North’ and hosted by John Iadarola, is a docuseries slated to debut this fall. — The Young Turks Network …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
ESPN rolls out update to Apple TV app that lets users watch four live streams simultaneously — ESPN today rolled out a new version of its Apple TV app that introduces the ability to watch four live simultaneous streams which can be displayed on the screen at the same time.
Wil S. Hylton / New York Times Magazine:
Breitbart has quietly shifted the tone of its news coverage in recent months, as it tries to lure mainstream talent and act more like a “legitimate” news org — Steve Bannon once said it was the platform for the alt-right. Its current editors disagree.
Ray Sanchez / CNN:
ESPN issued an apology on Tuesday for a fantasy football segment of an auction draft where black players were sold to mostly white male bidders — (CNN)ESPN apologized on Tuesday for a fantasy football segment of an auction draft where black players were sold to mostly white male bidders.
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.
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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
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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
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
BuzzFeed News partners with election data startup Decision Desk HQ to provide live coverage of US elections in 2018 — Last night, BuzzFeed News political editor Katherine Miller talked over the finer points of Alabama politics with Brandon Finnigan as green and red hearts ghosted up the side of the screen.
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