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

• Buzzfeed | Rupert Murdoch Is The Media’s Unlikely Hero In The War Against Facebook And Google (13 min read)
• The Atlantic | Google and Facebook Failed Us (7 min read)
• Ad Age | Ad Skeptics Say ‘Not So Fast’ To Facebook’s Two-Second Videos (4 min read)
• Ad Week | What Programmatic Advertising Must Do to Restore Trust With Brands (2 min read)
• The Washington Post | Russians took a page from corporate America by using Facebook tool to ID and influence voters (7 min read)
• Business Insider | We’re learning more about how Russia weaponized Facebook, Twitter, and Google — and it was remarkably easy (6 min read)
• Wired | Google’s latest move means you actually have to pay for news (5 min read)
• The Membership Puzzle Project | Introducing the Membership Models in News Database for your use and contributions (4 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Welcome To The Age Of Cheap Overseas Information (16 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | ‘Spoofed’ Online Ads Irk Publishers and Marketers (4 min read)
• Reuters | The press, branded the ‘enemy’ by Trump, increasingly trusted by the public: Reuters/Ipsos poll (4 min read)