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Articles tagged European Union (19)

Joshua BentonApril 6, 2021

Why does so much news about the European Union still come out of London, even post-Brexit?

Even without the U.K., English is still the most widely spoken language in the EU, and that’s led to some awkward arrangements.

Europe’s “right to be forgotten” doesn’t apply worldwide, a European court thankfully ruled

Laura Hazard OwenMay 23, 2019

Elections in India and the EU mean a flood of homegrown fake news

“More than a quarter of the content shared by the Bharatiya Janata Party and a fifth of the content shared by the Indian National Congress is junk news.”

Jeff SouthAugust 7, 2018

More than 1,000 U.S. news sites are still unavailable in Europe, two months after GDPR took effect

Websites had two years to get ready for the GDPR. But rather than comply, about a third of the 100 largest U.S. newspapers have instead chosen to block European visitors to their sites.

Shan Wang and Christine SchmidtMay 25, 2018

Welcome to GDPR: Here are the data privacy notices publishers are showing their Europe-based readers

We’re seeing what publishers have decided to implement on their websites as of May 25 — whether they’ve decided to block European Union and European Economic Area-based traffic outright, set up buckets of consent for readers to click through, or done something simpler (or nothing new at all).

Shan WangMay 14, 2018

European news sites are among the worst offenders when it comes to third-party cookies and content

Major news sites in seven countries averaged 81 third-party cookies per page, compared to 12 for other popular websites.

Shan WangMay 3, 2018

Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation is coming May 25. How have news publishers prepared?

What is it? Why is it happening? Who does it affect? Who does it benefit? What work does becoming compliant with this law involve?

Laura Hazard OwenApril 27, 2018

Explainers are tedious. Fact-checks can feel partisan. Is there a third way?

Plus: Problems with the First Amendment, fact-checking the fact-checkers, and how partisan newspapers’ circulations change depending on who’s in power.

Christine SchmidtApril 26, 2018

How do you monetize personality? Danish newsletter startup Føljeton has a few ideas

“When they wrote to us on Facebook Messenger to get the subscription, we got the feeling that this marked a big shift in their lives — going from teens to adults.”

Rasmus Kleis NielsenMarch 15, 2018

Soft power — not government censorship — is the key to fighting disinformation and “fake news”

“For a soft power approach to disinformation to work, it is critical that all stakeholders do in fact work together…If it fails, cruder responses may be the only ones left. But let’s hope not.”

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