| Суть России: ФСБшники заставили хорватов извиниться за "Слава Украине"
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 Представители ФСБ РФ после проигрыша сборной России в матче ЧМ-2018 против команды Хорватии и видеоприветствия Домагоя Виды и Огнена Вукоевича со словами "Слава Украине" угрожали руководству хорватской сборной. Во время разговора, состоявшегося 8 июля, проявившие инициативу офицеры объяснили хорватам, что после такого заявления они не будут обеспечивать безопасность игроков сборной, а потом "прямо и очень четко" намекнули, что во время чемпионата случаются неожиданные столкновения между местными патриотами и хорватскими фанатами. После такой "политинформации" руководству хорватской сборной оставалось только извиниться за сказанное Видой и Вукоевичем и выступить в поддержку России. Напомним, Домагой Вида и Огнен Вукоевич после победы Хорватии над сборной России записали видеообращение со словами "Слава Украине!" Дисциплинарный комитет ФИФА вынес предупреждение Виде, а Вукоевича оштрафовали на 15 тысяч швейцарских франков. При этом Федерация футбола Хорватии исключила Вукоевича из тренерского штаба сборной ...
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| Laundry Service responds to accusation of extortion by Papa John's founder
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 In an internal memo obtained by Ad Age, Laundry Service says "disparaging and outrageous comments about Wasserman and Laundry Service" made in the media regarding its relationship with Papa John's are "completely false" and that it will be going on the record with a response. This past Friday, Papa John's founder John Schnatter accused the pizza chain's former agency of trying to extort him out of $6 million after he used the "n"-word on a conference call with the shop in May. He made the extortion accusation in an interview with Kentucky's WLKY this past Friday. Schnatter stepped down as chairman last week after acknowledging that he used the term during a training exercise. He claimed his former agency wanted $6 million to "make it go away."
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| Amazon's Prime Day website glitches didn't stop it from setting record sales — but it was still a risk to the most important part of its business (AMZN)
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 • Amazon has claimed record sales for Prime Day despite website issues that prevented them from cashing in on the deals. • Website issues lasted for hours on Monday, which frustrated consumers and would be buyers. • Starting the sale earlier might have helped Amazon buoy its sales growth from last year's Prime Day, but making the all-important Prime members angry could still have consequences. Despite its share of issues, Amazon is still sitting pretty this Prime Day — but it's possible the worst is yet to come. "The first ten hours Prime Day grew even faster, year-over-year, than the first ten hours last year," Amazon boasted in a press release. According to Feedvisor, an e-commerce software provider, Amazon was able to sell 54% more in the first four hours of Prime Day when compared to last year, Bloomberg reported. The first hour, however, sales were down 5% when compared to last year. Still, the website issues, which included broken links and the site going down for a period of time, frustrated a lot ...
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| Republicans and Democrats come at Facebook, YouTube and Twitter with claims of favortism
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 Facebook, YouTube and Twitter were back before Congress on Tuesday, this time to answer claims of bias against conservatives on their platforms, while Democrats on hand called conservative victimhood "pure fantasy." Representatives from the three companies faced questions from the House Judiciary Committee, which already held a special hearing in April with social media personalities "Diamond and Silk," Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, who had claimed Facebook penalized their videos because of their support for President Trump. With fake news, fraudulent political ads and foreign interference uncovered during the 2016 election, there has been increased attention on social platforms and their public policies. But Facebook has been under pressure from the right side of the ...
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| Smirking, laughing Putin is the meme of your nightmares
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 How best to sum up this surreal moment in U.S. history and the state of the U.S.-Russia relationship? In GIF form, of course. The one below comes to us courtesy of Aaron Rupar of Think Progress, who captured a moment from Chris Wallace's widely praised Fox News interview with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin and shared it on Twitter: For more on the Wallace-Putin, uh, summit, see "Fox News's Chris Wallace gives Putin the grilling Trump won't" from The Washington Post's Aaron Blake.
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