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12:20 PM ET, October 9, 2017

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
In Hollywood, celebrities, agents, and producers are staying silent about the sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein  —  WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Movie potentates were peppered across the Tower Bar here as usual on Friday night.  Over in one dimly lit corner sat a martini-drinking movie star and his manager.
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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Harvey Weinstein has been fired from The Weinstein Company, effective immediately, the board announces in statement  —  Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced cofounder and CEO of The Weinstein Company, has been fired effective immediately, his board of directors said on Sunday.  —  The statement said:
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
The Wrap's Sharon Waxman shares how a story she wrote in 2004 for the New York Times about Weinstein's sexual misconduct was gutted  —  A whole lot of fur has been flying since last Thursday, when The New York Times published a game-changing investigative story about Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct …
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Source: New York Magazine had a story on Weinstein but killed it after he met with EIC Adam Moss; NY Mag denies this, says the story was insufficiently sourced  —  New York magazine had the Harvey Weinstein story — or nearly had it — a year ago but didn't run anything after the movie mogul …
Discussion: @gabrielsherman
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Source: SNL shelved jokes about Weinstein scandal which were to be aired on Saturday's show but only did so because they “fell flat” during dress rehearsal  —  The downfall of Harvey Weinstein would seem like obvious grist for TV's late-night comedy shows.
Washington Post:
Google finds Russian-bought ads worth tens of thousands of dollars on YouTube, Gmail, DoubleClick, that were part of effort to influence the 2016 election  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google for the first time has uncovered evidence that Russian operatives exploited the company's platforms in an attempt …
Bloomberg:
Netflix is facing stiff competition from Hulu which outbid it for reruns of This Is Us, spending around $3.5M per episode according to sources  —  Online service snaps up reruns, taking page from larger rival  —  Company says it's acquired 3,000 episodes of new, old shows
Discussion: FierceCable
Lorna White / INMA:
EU's General Data Protection Regulation will push advertisers to buy ads on sites with recognizable brands rather than target audiences anywhere on the web  —  SUMMARY: The General Data Protection Regulation will likely affect the ease of gathering data and related advertising opportunities.
Discussion: Forbes
New York Times:
How Disney accelerated plans to invest in BAMTech to power two planned streaming services  —  For two days in late June, Disney's board of directors gathered at Walt Disney World in Florida to wrestle with one topic: how technology was disrupting the company's traditional movie …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Members of House and Senate intelligence committees shed light on what they will look for in Facebook's Russian ad buy data  —  Facebook is facing an unprecedented crisis in Washington.  And it's only just beginning.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC  —  The same week Mark Zuckerberg delivered …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Defy Media fires Honest Trailers creator Andy Signore over complaints from multiple women of sexual harassment, including one saying he attempted sexual assault  —  Todd's Most Recent Stories  —  Andy Signore, creator of Screen Junkies and the “Honest Trailers” series …
Discussion: The Guardian
Lloyd Grove / Columbia Journalism Review:
Looking back at Donald Trump's relationship with the tabloids and how he controlled the narrative about himself  —  To tabloid reporters in New York, President Trump was known simply as Donald.  A former gossip writer for the New York Daily News describes a complicated—and profitable—relationship.
 
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos, who is leading the company's Russia investigation, complains via tweetstorm about a misguided media backlash over “The Algorithm”
CBS News:
On 60 Minutes, Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale describes how he handpicked Facebook employee “embeds” who assisted the campaign with its ad buys
Financial Times:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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