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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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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
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@kdnuggets, @joshelman, Top Digital Journal News, @epsilontheory, @harper and New York Times, more at Techmeme »
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
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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 …
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Nieman Lab
Victoria Smith Ekstrand / Raleigh News & Observer:
As we increasingly rely on private platforms for public debates, the Trump-Twitter blocking case and NFL's standing rule signal tough times for First Amendment — On the same day that a federal district court in New York ruled that the president cannot block Twitter users from his account …
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@b_fung, @johnrobinson, @uncle_jimbo, @alyssalalves, @haroldfeld, Washington Post, @jonathanwpeters and @jonathanwpeters
Media Matters for America:
Review of 487 Hannity segments show 256 included criticism of media coverage of Mueller investigation, 191 suggest no collusion between Trump camp and Russia — I reviewed all 487 of Sean Hannity's segments about the first year of Robert Mueller's investigation. Here's what I found.
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Mediaite and @williamjordann
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 …
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@geninnovate
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
A look at ESPN's troubles: too much “divisive” opinionated commentary, soaring broadcast rights, cord-cutting, and an at times rocky relationship with Disney — Arguments over tweets, tension with owner Disney increased anxiety over the network's future in era of cord-cutting
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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 …
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@poynter, @mathewi and @patbagley
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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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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@poynter, @kristenhare, @dktatlow, @laurel_carlton, @jcstearns and @spj_tweets
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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@danahoule
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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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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 …
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