• Hulk Hogan’s privacy lawsuit against Gawker Media was secretly bankrolled by billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel, a Forbes report claims. According to the New York Times, a confidentiality agreement protects Thiel’s involvement in the case.
• The European Commission may force Netflix to fund European filmmakers. The proposed rules would require foreign on-demand services like Netflix to support local film and television.
• Twitter has made it so that links, handles, and images don’t count toward the 140-character limit—and it has finally killed the annoying “.@” structure.