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9:25 AM ET, October 31, 2017

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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Netflix to cancel its first original series, House of Cards, after next season; execs meeting with cast and crew in wake of Kevin Spacey assault allegations  —  Netflix drama “House of Cards” will end with its upcoming sixth season, Variety has learned.  Production has begun …
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Sources: Facebook, Google, Twitter to tell Congress that Russian election meddling wider than reported; source says 126M Facebook users may have seen content  —  The companies will reveal new data about the Kremlin's disinformation at congressional hearings this week.
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Jimmy Wales / Wikitribune Beta:
Jimmy Wales announces WikiTribune is open, says it will begin accepting people over the next few weeks  —  Welcome to WikiTribune, a pilot project for a new approach to journalism where the community is at the center.  This is not a news service - yet.  It'll only be the news service I envisage when you play a full role.
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
PBS Orders Food Series ‘No Passport Required’ From Vox Media  —  Host Marcus Samuelsson will travel America to explore the global cuisine cooked in local immigrant communities.  —  PBS' appetite for food programming is growing.  —  The public broadcaster has ordered a travel food series …
Variety:
British police have expanded their investigation into Harvey Weinstein and are now probing at least 11 incidents, inside and outside the UK  —  Police in Britain have widened their investigation into Harvey Weinstein, and are now looking into allegations that the disgraced producer sexually assaulted …
Hollywood Reporter:
Since reorganization a year ago, Viacom's ratings are up 3% and analysts expect shares to rise over next 12 months, but Paramount film studio underperforms  —  CEO Bob Bakish, who has been in charge for nearly a year, has made inroads in TV (cable channel ratings are up 3 percent) …
Brian Barrett / Wired:
How streaming boxes running open source Kodi media player software have made video piracy easy with third-party add-ons  —  THE KODI BOX pitch is hard to resist.  A little black plastic square, in look not much different from a Roku or Apple TV, and similar in function as well.
Discussion: Fortune
Ben Popper / The Verge:
YouTube TV debuts a standalone app for Android TV and Xbox One devices today, coming to Apple TV, smart TVs in coming weeks; no plans shared for Amazon app  —  The video giant's pay TV effort is expanding  —  Over the last five years, major cable and satellite television providers in the US …
Nat Levy / GeekWire:
Amazon announces plans to move Amazon Studios, IMDB, Amazon Video, and World Wide Advertising to historic 280K sq ft Culver Studios in Culver City, California  —  Amazon Studios, the company's film and TV production arm, said it is moving into the historic Culver Studios, where classics like …
Discussion: TechCrunch
 
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