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Five women accuse Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct; Thursday premiere of his new movie is 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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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 …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, New York Times, Screen Rant, Variety, @cbsnews and The A.V. Club

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 …

Discussion: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Recode and @pkafka, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: StarWars.com, The Wrap, Multichannel News, The Wrap, Business Wire, New York Times, Screen Rant, Awful Announcing and CNBC

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.

Discussion: Axios, CNBC, Awful Announcing, Variety, WCTX-TV and Hollywood Reporter

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.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Twitter says it has temporarily paused “all general verifications” to work on clarifying policy, after verifying white supremacist Jason Kessler — Twitter today announced it's pausing all account verifications - the process that gives public figures on Twitter a blue checkmark next …

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Hulu comes to the Nintendo Switch in the US today, becoming the first major video streaming app available on the console — Nintendo has released a list of the new releases for its Switch console eShop available today, and North Americans will be able to download Hulu, according to the list.

Discussion: Hulu, CinemaBlend, Multichannel News, VideoInk, Polygon, Forbes, Business Insider, The Verge and Polygon, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / Recode:

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says DoJ did not ask him to sell CNN as a condition of acquiring Time Warner, despite report, reiterates he does not intend to sell — That contradicts reports from yesterday. — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says no one from the Department of Justice has asked …

Discussion: @joepompeo, @oliverdarcy, CNBC, Mediawire, @stevekovach, @mikeisaac, @dylanbyers, CNNMoney and The New York Observer, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / Recode:
When Trump's DoJ threatens to scuttle AT&T-Time Warner deal unless CNN is sold, business leaders feel the chill as well as journalists

Discussion: New York Times, Free Press Blog, Financial Times, VideoNuze Analysis, Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Observer, Shareblue Media, TVNewser, Crain's New York Business, Broadcasting & Cable, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Politico, Financial Times and @jrosenworcel

Alex Heath / Business Insider:

Source: Snapchat redesign coming Dec. 4, app will still open to camera, all friend-based comms move to left, all crowdsourced, partner, celeb stories to right — - Snapchat's biggest redesign ever is planned to debut on December 4, Business Insider has learned.

Discussion: Digiday, @caseynewton, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac and Mashable

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 …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Mashable, Techdirt and SlashGear, more at Techmeme »

Sahil Patel / Digiday:

Cheddar plans to launch a second channel, Cheddar Big News, by the end of Q1 2018, broadcasting from 6am to 10pm daily, modeled after CNN's Headline News — Business video net Cheddar plans to launch a second channel focused on national and world news next year.

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