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• Drake Becomes First Musician To Hit 50 Billion Global Streams Across All Platforms
• Alex Jones’ Infowars Channels Scrubbed From YouTube, Facebook, Apple, And Spotify

  Apple, Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify have all in the past 24 hours removed content created by Alex Jones and his site Infowars from their platforms, citing violations of hate speech policies. Jones, a conspiracy theorist who has alleged that the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were faked by the government and did not involve any real deaths, has received multiple strikes from YouTube this year, the most recent for hate speech and child endangerment.

  
• Apple Adds Former BBC Films Exec To Content Team, As It Readies International Slate

  Joe Oppenheimer, who formerly served as chief of BBC Films, has joined Apple as a creative executive on its international development team.

  
• YouTube Star Mark Rober Has Been Secretly Working At Apple On VR Tech For Self-Driving Cars

  This spring, Apple filed patents for two types of displays bearing Rober’s name, which could potentially be used by passengers in automonous vehicles -- an immersive virtual display and an augmented virtual display.

  
• New MTV Studios To Remake ‘The Real World, ‘Daria’, More ’90s Shows For SVOD Platforms
• Head Of YouTube Music Has “Largest Marketing Plan In YouTube’s History” For The Service
• Oprah Winfrey, Apple Ink Multi-Year Development Deal
• Apple Reportedly In Talks To Add Its First Film To Original Content Lineup
• Netflix Will Not Bring Any Movies To The Cannes Film Festival This Year
• Apple To Adapt Isaac Asimov’s Seminal Sci-Fi ‘Foundation’ Book Series For TV
• Insights: Apple Just Launched Its MTV, So When Will It Launch Its Netflix?
• Apple Streaming Service To Launch As Early As March 2019