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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 -
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 its archive of political ads, containing ads for political candidates and “issue ads” starting in May 2018 -
Nathan Bomey / USA Today: Elon Musk unleashes barrage of criticism aimed at “big media companies” in at least 19 tweets and says he plans to launch a site to assess journalists -
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 -
New York Times: Sources: Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities in New York on Friday to face charges in connection with at least one accuser, Lucia Evans -
Alan Feuer / New York Times: Sources: federal prosecutors in Manhattan expand investigation into Harvey Weinstein to include allegations that he may have violated federal stalking laws -
Erik Wemple / Washington Post: 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 -
Janko Rottgers / Variety: Vevo is shuttering its Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile apps and website to refocus on YouTube following resignation of several execs and significant layoffs -
Garrett Camp: Sixteen years after it started, StumbleUpon to shut down and transition its accounts to content discovery platform Mix.com over the next couple of months -
25 minutes ago 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 -
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 … -
Lucia Moses / Digiday: Some publishers sit out meetings with Google about GDPR, citing its public silence on how it will use the data it expects publishers to give it access to -
Tim Peterson / Digiday: Twitter plans to roll out a site dedicated to teaching smaller publishers how to produce and monetize content, including videos, for Twitter