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Five women accuse Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct; premiere of his new movie was canceled, along with appearance on Late Show with Colbert — In 2002, a Chicago comedy duo, Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, landed their big break: a chance to perform at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen …
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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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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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CHINAdaily:
Beijing Bytedance Technology Co. to invest $50M in Cheetah Mobile's Live.me streaming service and buy Cheetah Mobile's news aggregator News Republic for $86.6M — China's internet and mobile app publisher, Cheetah Mobile Inc, announced Wednesday it has entered a strategic cooperation agreement …
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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Richard Deitsch / SI.com:
Sources: about 100 layoffs expected at ESPN after Thanksgiving, affecting on-air talent, executives, producers, and digital and tech staffers — Created with Sketch. — The network is expected to cut more than 100 staffers, including front-facing talent, in late November.
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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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Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Despite Jack Dorsey's pledges to remove hate symbols and violent groups, Twitter verifies creator of white supremacist rally in Charlottesville — On Tuesday, Twitter gave its preferred status, a verified check mark, to Jason Kessler, the creator of the white supremacist Charlottesville rally in August that left one dead.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter says it has temporarily paused “all general verifications” to work on clarifying policy, after verifying white supremacist Jason Kessler
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
YouTube says it will age-restrict flagged videos that make “inappropriate use of family-friendly characters” to logged-in users 18 or older — Videos that violate policy will now be age restricted — Earlier this week, a report in The New York Times and a blog post on Medium drew …
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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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Katherine Cowdrey / The Bookseller:
BBC releases its first interactive audio story, The Inspection Chamber, on Amazon Echo; listeners insert themselves in the story and steer the plot via voice — The BBC has launched its first interactive audio story, a sci-fi comedy called “The Inspection Chamber”, available through Amazon Alexa.
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