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11:10 AM ET, August 16, 2017

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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.
Discussion: The Week
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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
New York Times:
Source: Hope Hicks will be named new White House director of communications, replacing Anthony Scaramucci, but only on an interim basis for now  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's longtime aide, Hope Hicks, will serve as the interim White House director of communications and will help …
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 …
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.
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 …
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: @rafat and @lucas_shaw, Thanks:@whatthebit
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.
Discussion: The New York Observer and Forbes
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: @benmullin
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Q&A with Joseph Lichterman, formerly of Nieman Lab, now a fellow at the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, funded by a grant from Solutions Journalism Network  —  Joseph Lichterman is a little more than a week into his new job finding solutions for sustainable journalism.
 
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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
Discussion: Mediaite
Ramin Setoodeh / Variety:
In interview, Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says the streaming service will spend $7B on original content in 2018
Discussion: Polygon and Business Insider
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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
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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