Recode Daily: The internet and the White House respond to Charlottesville; Netflix takes on Disney, again

Recode Daily: The internet and the White House respond to Charlottesville; Netflix takes on Disney, again

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https://www.recode.net/2017/8/14/16141632/uber-benchmark-kalanick-dragoneer-general-atlantic-trump-twitter-charlottesville-white-nationalist

While the White House scrambled to put a good face on President Trump’s equivocal and inadequate response to this weekend’s violent white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Va., some Twitter users began publicly revealing the identities of the white supremacist “Unite the Right” protesters. The internet has already raised more than $200,000 in the name of Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old counter-protester who was killed by a car during the clash.

Netflix has signed up “Scandal” producer Shonda Rhimes, one of the most powerful people in TV. Rhimes has spent the last 15 years working with Disney’s ABC; last week Disney said it was pulling at least some of its movies from Netflix. The move underscores Netflix’s increasing ability and ambition to create its own content rather than buying reruns from Hollywood. [Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal]