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Adam Satariano / New York Times:
Chairwoman of European Data Protection Board criticizes blackout of EU visitors by some US media outlets: “Everyone has had plenty of time to prepare” — LONDON — American news outlets including The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The Arizona Daily Star abruptly blocked access …
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David Meyer / Fortune:
Digital privacy activist Max Schrems files official GDPR complaints against Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram over forced consent — Europe's sweeping new data privacy regime came into effect this morning, and privacy activists are not wasting time in flexing their muscles.
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BBC:
News sites for Lee Enterprises and Tronc properties, like the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune, restrict access to users in the EU as GDPR goes into effect — A number of high-profile US news websites are temporarily unavailable in Europe after new European Union rules on data protection came into effect.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Financial Times and New York Media suspend paid media spending on Facebook due to concerns that news articles could be labeled as issue ads under new policy — Facebook's new ad-labeling policy has come under fire from publishers who are concerned that their news articles will be treated …
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Rob Leathern / Facebook:
Facebook rolls out “Paid for by” disclosure labels on Facebook and Instagram for political ads in US, including issues ads that deal with 20 specific subjects — As we announced last month, we're making big changes to the way ads with political content work on Facebook to help prevent abuse, especially during elections.
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Facebook:
Facebook will check images and text, who is being targeted, and any linked websites in issue ads as it begins to apply new policies
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Twitter:
Twitter to add badges and disclaimers for US federal political advertisers and require certification and account elements “consistent with online presence”
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Anna Hensel / VentureBeat:
Facebook launches archive of political ads, containing ads for political candidates and issue ads starting in May 2018; ads kept in archive for seven years
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Otillia Steadman / BuzzFeed:
Harvey Weinstein has turned himself in to the NYPD to face sexual assault allegations — He arrived at the NYPD's first precinct in downtown Manhattan on Friday. — Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has turned himself in to the NYPD to face sexual assault allegations.
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Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Leaked training documents show how Facebook classifies hate speech groups, allowing praise for white nationalism and white separatism but not white supremacy — After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators …
MySanAntonio.com:
San Antonio Express-News lays off 14 newsroom employees as Hearst consolidates; two employees also laid off in Austin bureau of Hearst-owned Houston Chronicle — The San Antonio Express-News laid off 14 newsroom employees Wednesday and Thursday as parent company Hearst Corp. coordinates …
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Janko Rottgers / Variety:
Gracenote announces Sonic Style Wednesday, a dataset that classifies 90 million songs by recording style instead of artist genre using AI and ML — Nielsen-owned media data specialist Gracenote wants to help music services make better mixes with fewer outliers: The company announced …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: after outcry from some artists and employees, Spotify reconsidering its hateful content and conduct policy, plans to restore XXXTentacion to playlists — - Streaming service plans to restore XXXTentacion to playlists — Company had stopped promoting the artist, as well as R. Kelly
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump gave Fox & Friends another interview this week, showing the pattern of favoring Fox News; last full news conference was February 2017 — President Trump made a remarkable comment in an interview Thursday morning, suggesting that NFL players who sought to protest during the national anthem …
Joel Simon / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at how Amal Clooney's high-profile relationships and strategy of exposing legal anomalies in past cases could help Reuters reporters on trial in Myanmar — At the end of May—more than six months after they were first arrested—Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo expect …
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