Our recommended reads from around the web:

• Digiday: How The Atlantic, Slate and others obsess about user experience (4 min read)
• The Guardian: Taylor Swift is taking on YouTube, and it won’t be an easy fight (5 min read)
• New York Times: How the Internet Saved Turkey’s Internet-Hating President (5 min read)
• MediaPost: Fraud Crusader Says Ad Tech Firms, Others, Continue To Profit From Selling Fraudulent Impressions (3 min read)
• Bloomberg: Facebook Omnipresence Makes Murdoch’s Journal Wary of Close Ties (4 min read)
• Fortune: Nick Denton Says Giving Up on Reader Comments Is a Big Mistake (5 min read)
• Adweek: Ads on Premium Publishers’ Sites Are 3 Times More Effective at Boosting Brand Favorability (3 min read)
• Wall Street Journal: EU Files Additional Formal Charges Against Google (4 min read)
• Washingtonian: What Really Happened at Politico (30 min read)