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6:30 AM ET, May 27, 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.
Nicholas Thompson / Wired:
Q&A with members of Facebook's team to fight fake news on enforcing community standards, financial motivations of false news posts, and reduction of clickbait  —  On Monday, I sat down with nine members of the team at Facebook fighting fake news: Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia …
Discussion: Nieman Lab
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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.
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 …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
The SLC Tribune declined quickly because two newspaper cities aren't sustainable, it inherited old tech in 2016 sale, and was late to digital subscriptions  —  When the Huntsman family bought The Salt Lake Tribune in April 2016, rescuing it from Digital First Media ownership …
Krishn Kaushik / The Indian Express:
Videos posted by Cobrapost claim big media outlets in India were willing to promote “Hindutva” politics via paid-for news; media orgs call the sting misleading  —  India Today, Times Group, HT, Paytm among targeted.  The Sunday Express sent an email to 25 of the media groups named in the sting …
 
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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
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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
Janko Rottgers / Variety:
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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
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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