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

• Financial Times | Modern monopolists are redefining competition (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Is It Time to Break Up Google? (7 min read)
• The Globe and Mail | In conversation with Irwin Gotlieb, an ad buyer in a Google world (7 min read)
• WSJ| Publishers Weigh Pros and Cons of Potential Google Ad-Blocking Feature (4 min read)
• Digiday | The Guardian pulls out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News (3 min read)
• Business Insider | The evidence is piling up — Silicon Valley is being destroyed (5 min read)
• The Drum | Are we entering adtech’s era of accountability (7 min read)
• Advertising Week | With Brand Safety in Focus, Digital Advertisers Are Quickly Shifting Toward Direct Programmatic (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | The FCC just released a plan to undo its own net neutrality rules  (5 min read)
• The New York Times Magazine | Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug? (29 min read)
• Fortune | Hulu and the Fight for Real-Time TV (20 min read)