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2:00 PM ET, May 25, 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 …
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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.
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  —  Facebook's new ad-labeling policy has come under fire from publishers who are concerned that their news articles will be treated …
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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  —  As we announced last month, we're making big changes to the way ads with political content work on Facebook to help prevent abuse, especially during elections.
Twitter:
Twitter to add badges and disclaimers for US federal political advertisers and require certification and account elements “consistent with online presence”
Anna Hensel / VentureBeat:
Facebook launches archive of political ads, containing ads for political candidates and issue ads starting in May 2018; ads kept in archive for seven years
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.
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  —  The San Antonio Express-News laid off 14 newsroom employees Wednesday and Thursday as parent company Hearst Corp. coordinates …
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme introduces its first newsletter, which goes out daily at 8pm Eastern  —  Today we're launching Techmeme's first newsletter.  Sign up here!  It goes out Sunday through Friday around 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern and, like Techmeme.com, summarizes the day's top tech news and commentary …
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Elon Musk's bad-faith bluster shows how little the tech barons understand about journalism; suggestions to crowdsource truth are plainly naive  —  When it comes to media criticism, comparing Elon Musk to Donald Trump is very unfair — to Trump.  —  BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief
Farai Chideya / Columbia Journalism Review:
Only 4 of 15 major news outlets responded to a survey of political press corps makeup in 2016, indicating overall lack of transparency about newsroom diversity  —  President Lyndon Baines Johnson with some members of the Kerner Commission in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, DC, 1967.
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  —  Time Inc UK will change its name to TI Media next month to mark the publisher's “next chapter” after it was bought by a private equity firm.
Discussion: The Drum, Mediawire and WWD
Joseph Otterson / Variety:
Viacom's BET Networks announces that Debra Lee is stepping down as chairman and CEO on May 28  —  Debra Lee is stepping down from her position as chairman and CEO of BET Networks effective May 28, the company announced Thursday.  —  Lee began her career with the company as its first vice president and general counsel in 1986.
 
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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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The Daily Beast's EIC John Avlon is moving to CNN as a full-time senior political analyst and anchor, replaced by Noah Shachtman, moving from executive editor
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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