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Associated Press:
Louis C.K. Says Sexual Misconduct Allegations Are True — NEW YORK — Comedian Louis C.K. says the allegations of sexual misconduct against him are true. — The comedian also issued a statement a day after The New York Times detailed five women's allegations of sexual misconduct by C.K. …
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Variety:
Release of Louis C.K.'s movie, “I Love You, Daddy”, is scrapped by The Orchard after allegations of sexual misconduct against the comedian — The release of Louis C.K.'s new film “I Love You, Daddy” has been scrapped in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations levied against the comedian.
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Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
HBO drops Louis C.K. from November 18 special show, Night of Too Many Stars, and removes his past projects from its on-demand services — Louis C.K., the topic of a new New York Times exposé today detailing the allegations of five women who claimed to have been sexually harassed …
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New York Times:
Five women accuse Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct; premiere of his new movie was canceled, along with appearance on Late Show with Colbert
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Guardian digital editor Ian Prior and two other journalists are absent from work due to investigations into harassment claims — Sources have told BuzzFeed News that digital editor Ian Prior has been suspended pending an investigation by management.
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Mary Ann Georgantopoulos / BuzzFeed:
Writer claims Jann Wenner offered him writing assignments in exchange for sex in 2005, Wenner denies any quid pro quo — Ben Ryan says the offer was made in the publisher's Upper West Side townhouse on August 11, 2005. “There was that moment where it's like time stood still,” he recalled.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Musical.ly acquired for as much as $1B by Beijing Bytedance Technology Co., maker of news app Toutiao — With 60 million monthly users, startup sells to Chinese maker of news app Toutiao — Musical.ly Inc., the maker of a lip-syncing app popular among teens and tweens …
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Julia Angwin / ProPublica:
How three ProPublica reporters were attacked with cheap Twitter bot swarms and “email bombs” that forced the shutdown of all email accounts — It was 10 a.m. on a hot, humid Tuesday in August when I decided I could finally relax. After a frantic weekend of finishing a big story …
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney misses with Q4 net income of $1.75B, down 1% YoY, on $12.78B in revenue, down 2.8% YoY and below $13.2B estimated — Shares of Disney rose prior to the closing bell on Thursday but are roughly flat for the year, even as Wall Street in general has been in rally mode.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Playboy sues Boing Boing for a 2016 post that linked to a collection of centerfold pictures on Imgur and YouTube, which has since been taken down — Playboy apparently has lawyers with itchy trigger fingers. As first spotted by Law360, Playboy Entertainment Group has sued the BoingBoing …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Since 2010, the Drudge Report has linked to Infowars, RT, and Sputnik more than 1,000 times — By July 2016, according to the analysis site SimilarWeb, Matt Drudge's link-aggregation site Drudge Report was the second-most-visited on the Internet in the United States.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK's National Union of Journalists is pursuing equal pay for 100+ female members at the BBC; NUJ survey says 8 out 10 women members believe pay disparity exists — Eight out of ten women journalists at the BBC believe they are paid less than male counterparts, according to a survey carried out by the National Union of Journalists.
Politico:
Ex-Obama officials see Trump's capitulation to Chinese insistence on no Q&A as a failure to support press freedom and cite previous admins' conferences in China — Obama himself failed to stand up for media access on a 2009 China trip but changed his stance in 2014.
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