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

• CBS News | People trust platforms less, trust journalism more, study says (2 min read)
• Adweek | Facebook Is in a Trust Crisis (6 min read)
• The Economist | Something doesn’t ad up about America’s advertising market (5 min read)
• AdAge | Rupert Murdoch Tells Facebook to Pay ‘Trusted’ Publishers (3 min read)
• Recode | Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google spent nearly $50 million — a record — to influence the U.S. government in 2017 (5 min read)
• The Verge | Facebook admits what we all know: that social media can be bad for democracy (3 min read)
• Recode | Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today (1 min read)
•  The New York Times | Once Cozy With Silicon Valley, Democrats Grow Wary of Tech Giants (6 min read)
• The New York Times | For Pope Francis, Fake News Goes Back to the Garden of Eden (5 min read)