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8:05 PM ET, April 24, 2018

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Some ad tech firms worry EU's GDPR will just increase market share for Facebook and Google, but EU's Věra Jourová doubts that will be an effect of the law — Big tech companies gain while smaller online ad firms are squeezed under the European Union's GDPR, which takes effect in May.

Chris Butler / Internet Archive Blogs:

Wayback Machine says it declined to take down “fraudulent” blog posts after Joy Reid's lawyers contacted archive; robots.txt later excluded blog from archives — Some recent press stories (1, 2) have discussed archived blog posts of a prominent journalist, Joy Ann Reid …

Discussion: Fast Company, Mediaite, @dangillmor, @kfile, Contemptor and The Daily Caller

Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Twitter user shared screenshots of homophobic posts on Joy Reid's Reid Report, found via Wayback Machine; Reid claims content was manipulated by external party

Discussion: @jamie_maz, @bernstein, @ggreenwald, Splinter, Boing Boing, BuzzFeed, Fox News, @kfile, @ggreenwald, @caulkthewagon, @ggreenwald, @bernstein, @jamie_maz, New York Post and Sean Hannity

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

McClatchy partners with Google to roll out its new subscription tool, Subscribe with Google, across all 30 of its local news sites across 14 states — Google is rolling out its subscription tool, Subscribe with Google, on April 24, and it picked newspaper chain McClatchy as its first launch partner …

Discussion: @dawnbvaughan, @laurenhorsch, @doug_hanks, @mcclatchy and @cforman

Mark Anderson / Sacramento Business Journal:

McClatchy's Sacramento Bee announces plans to lay off or buy out 14 editorial staffers and eight working on production and copy desk, effective in early May — The Sacramento Bee on Tuesday announced another round of layoffs in its newsroom. The latest round of job cuts includes 14 journalists …

Discussion: Comstock's magazine, @mattdpearce, @rl_bynum, @newsfletch, @byrosenberg, @byrosenberg, @callaghanpeter, @kylebuis, @fergusonbj, @andrewsheeler and @byrosenberg

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Some YouTube thumbnails depicted bestiality, now pulled; YouTube says monitoring tech missed because bestiality thumbnails may lack signals of typical porn — There is bestiality on YouTube, and it's surprisingly easy to find. It's also surprisingly prevalent, but not in videos …

Discussion: @pkafka, Mashable, The Verge, @jimwaterson, @gaywonk, @mattmittenthal, @cwarzel, @cwarzel and @cwarzel, more at Techmeme »

YouTube Blog:
YouTube releases its first community guidelines enforcement report: 8M+ videos removed in Q4 2017, with 6.7M first flagged by machines

Discussion: Variety, 9to5Google, Adweek, New York Times, Recode, The Next Web, Fortune, TechCrunch, Business Insider and Engadget

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Spotify launches a redesigned mobile app for its free users that lets them listen on-demand to any song on one of 15 personalized discovery playlists — Today at the Gramercy Theater in NYC, Spotify's Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström announced a brand new free version of the Spotify mobile app.

Discussion: Slate, Recode, @alexeheath, newsroom.spotify.com, The Verge, @daigosweden, @alexeheath, RAIN News, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Engadget, TechHive, Fortune, @lucas_shaw, 9to5Mac and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

Sinclair revises plan for Tribune deal, would sell 23 TV stations, keep New York's WPIX, sell but operate Chicago's WGN, end up with 215 stations in 102 markets — Sinclair Broadcast Group has been forced to significantly revise its plan for station divestitures if its $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media is approved.

Discussion: TVSpy, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, Reuters, Radio & Television …, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis and sbgi.net

Mike Shields / Business Insider:

Sources: Bloomberg is planning to erect a paywall on its site, possibly as soon as next month — - Bloomberg is planning to start charging readers to access stories on Bloomberg.com, potentially starting next month, according to people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: @yoda and Talking Biz News

Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:

UK-based digital publication The Debrief, which launched in 2014 and was aimed at young women, is shutting down, possibly due to changes to Facebook News Feed — It launched in 2014 with ambitions to be more than just a “BuzzFeed” for young women. Now, The UK-based digital publication The Debrief, is shutting down.

Discussion: Debrief, Bauer Media, Press Gazette, @bpas1968, @aimeejakes, @ywtrust, @poornabell, @sophwilkinson, @shonfaye, @kieran_yates, @hatttiegladwell, @katelloud, @annacafolla, @louiseridley, @notrollergirl and @jess_commons

Amy Russo / Mediaite:

Trump tells supporters in email he's boycotting the White House Correspondents Dinner and will hold a rally that night in Michigan's Washington Township instead — President Donald Trump is explaining his absence from the upcoming White House Correspondents' Dinner with a fundraising email …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and The Daily Caller

Kellen / Droid Life:

Source: Google Play Music will be replaced by YouTube's upcoming music streaming service, with Play Music users forced to use the new service by the end of 2018 — When Google finally launches its rumored YouTube Remix platform this year, one of its other services will be put to rest.

Discussion: 9to5Google and @mhbergen

Radhika Jones / Vanity Fair:

Vanity Fair's website has launched a paywall, with readers getting four articles a month for free before needing to subscribe — I've been an avid watcher of The Crown for its first two seasons. It is one of the most subtle and fascinating studies of female power I've seen.

Discussion: Digiday, Wall Street Journal, @digiday and @claireatki

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Owen Jones:
Journalism is one of the most socially exclusive professions in Britain, concentrated in one of the world's most expensive cities, and it must change

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Steve Pratt / Pacific Content:
As it prepares to launch a podcasts app, Google adds seamless podcast listening across devices, allowing users to listen on a phone and resume on Google Home

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Monika Bickert / Facebook:
Facebook publishes the internal guidelines it uses to enforce its public Community Standards, will allow users to appeal when their posts are taken down

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Noah Kulwin / New York Magazine:
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram from its App Store in China, after orders from the country's regulators citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that can create a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

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