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6:45 PM ET, May 26, 2018

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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 …
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.
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
With the arrival of GDPR, ad platform vendors like DoubleClick warn publishers about steep EU ad volumes declines, at least for the short term  —  The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation's enforcement May 25 has hurled the digital media and advertising industries into a tailspin.
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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
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.
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 …
Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network:
Q&A with Tow Center director Emily Bell on Facebook algorithms as dictatorial law, the importance of transparency, and keeping the site “at arm's length”  —  We talked to Emily Bell, professor in digital journalism at Columbia University and the founding director of the Tow Center …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Six small Long Island newspapers set aside competition to partner together and share resources in covering the opioid epidemic in their communities  —  Six news organizations showed up to cover a candlelight vigil in Hampton Bays, New York, earlier this month.
Reuters:
In a final ruling, Egypt's court orders regulators to block YouTube for one month over the 2012 “Innocence of Muslims” video that denigrates Prophet Mohammad  —  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's top administrative court ruled on Saturday that regulators must block the video file-sharing site YouTube …
Eben Novy-Williams / Bloomberg:
Riot Games signs non-exclusive streaming deal with Disney's ESPN+ for League of Legends; replaces $350M exclusive Riot had with now Disney-owned BAMTech in 2016  —  - Riot Games and BAMTech signed landmark deal in December 2016  — Deal replaced Friday by new streaming agreement with ESPN+
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 …
 
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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
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
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
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Time Inc UK to rebrand as TI Media following its sale in February; company closed InStyle UK this week, will stop publishing women's magazine Look on May 29
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Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme introduces its first newsletter, which goes out daily at 8pm Eastern
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix topped Walt Disney Co. in market value Thursday after surpassing Comcast on Wednesday; the company's stock is up 82% in 2018
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