Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• CNET | Ad industry attacks Safari’s effort to protect your privacy (7 min read)
• PageFair | How the GDPR will disrupt Google and Facebook (8 min read)
• The Guardian | Apple cuts cookies – but there is more to come in the online advertising arms race (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | Are publishers making money on Facebook? “Not really,” a new report finds (2 min read)
• The Guardian | Facebook’s war on free will (24 min read)
• WWD | Media People: Hearst’s Digital Architect Troy Young on the Survival of Legacy Media (15 min read)
• PressGazette | Why the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation directive could save the journalism industry (4 min read)
• Vanity Fair | Mark Zuckerberg’s Russia Problem Is Bigger Than Facebook (3 min read)
• MediaPost | P&G Is Right — The Party’s Over For Digital Advertising (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | Now Apple needs to reinvent the digital economy (4 min read)
• Marketing Week | Mark Ritson: Google’s lack of transparency should have us all worried (10 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein In a Wild Web (17 min read)
• NiemanLab | The future of news is humans talking to machines (31 min read)