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We find robust evidence that both EU and U.S. news and media websites responded to the regulation by altering their data collection practices, but did so differently, with EU websites reducing tracking and implementing consent mechanisms at higher rates than their U.S. counterparts. Although we detect a reduction in average page views per user on EU relative to U.S. websites, we do not find evidence of negative impacts, in both the short and long term, on EU websites\u2019 provision of new content or on several proxies for quality of that content, such as social media engagement metrics, various traffic measures, and articles\u2019 text analytics. We also find no evidence of differences in survival rates across EU and U.S. news and media websites, and no evidence that monetization strategies changed at higher rates on EU relative to U.S. websites. The analysis suggests that EU online content providers did implement changes to their data collection practices in response to the GDPR but were able to use data minimization and consent mechanism strategies that allowed them to keep producing content and engage audiences at degrees on par with their U.S. counterparts.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>This paper was accepted by D. J. Wu, information systems.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Funding: The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Alfred P. 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