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Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Source: Rupert Murdoch offered to buy CNN during two conversations with AT&T's Randall Stephenson; another source denies Murdoch wants to own the network — Rupert Murdoch telephoned AT&T Inc Chief Executive Randall Stephenson twice in the last six months and talked about cable network CNN …
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Jared Kushner told Time Warner Inc. executive CNN should fire 20% of its staff for incorrect election analysis about the outcome — Uncertainty around AT&T deal arises after long stretch of hostility between network, administration — Early this year, President Donald Trump's son …
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Some Time Warner executives think Rupert Murdoch privately encouraged Trump to halt AT&T's effort to take over Time Warner — Everyone knows the president hates CNN—but Trump's Fox News ally also has multiple bones to pick with the AT&T-Time Warner deal.
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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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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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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
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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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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.
Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
NYT sues woman for posing as its reporter for several years, during which she asked questions at Brookings events and interviewed the Turkish ambassador — She's fake news! — The New York Times sued a Queens woman Thursday, saying she posed as one of its reporters for at least two years.
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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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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.
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 …
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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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