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DCN’s must reads: week of May 11, 2017
May 11, 2017 | By DCNHere are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- The Economist | Eroding exceptionalism: Internet firms’ legal immunity is under threat (9 min read)
- MIT Technology Review | Digital Advertising Takes a Hit (4 min read)
- New York Post | Google and Facebook could lose $2.9B in ad sales: report (2 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | The Rise of Transparent Digital Ad Buying (5 min read)
- The New York Times | Ad Buyers Have a Say in Whether Real News Survives (8 min read)
- The Drum | TV is not dying – it’s lies, damn lies and bad media statistics (11 min read)
- Medium | This is How Google will Collapse (6 min read)
- USA Today | USA TODAY asks FBI to probe rise in fake Facebook followers (7 min read)
- The Washington Post | Leave it to the geniuses at Harvard to come up with a solution to fake news (3 min read)
- The Economist | The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data (5 min read)
- Stratechery | The Local News Business Model (11 min read)
- Deadline | Liberty Media CEO: Amazon’s Capabilities Are “Ridiculously Scary” (2 min read)
- HBO | Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (20 min view)