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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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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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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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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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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Some candidates complain they can not advertise on Facebook before June 5 primaries, as they wait for authorization codes to arrive by mail under the new rules — Candidates are blocked from buying ads while they wait on authorization codes — Facebook introduced new disclosure rules …
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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
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
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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
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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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
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
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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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 …