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7:40 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 …
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 …
Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
Source: Hope Hicks, who has been the director of strategic communications, to be named the new White House communications director  —  Hope Hicks will be named the new White House communications director, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.  —  President Trump has offered the job …
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 …
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.
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
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.
Discussion: @lucas_shaw, Thanks:@whatthebit
 
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