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

• The Washington Post | Why Europe got tough on Google but the U.S. couldn’t (4 min read)
• The Ad Contrarian | Apple Treats The Disease. Google Treats The Symptoms. (4 min read)
• Al Jazeera | Media group backs Al Jazeera amid closure calls (2 min read)
• HuffPost | Don’t Believe Those Against Net Neutrality, Title II and Privacy—Funded by the Phone, Cable and Wireless Associations: USTA, NCTA, & the CTIA (12 min read)
• Farnam Street | Rory Sutherland on The Psychology of Advertising, Complex Evolved Systems, Reading, Decision Making (2 min listen)
• Wired | Google’s Big EU Fine Isn’t Just About the Money (7 min read)
• MediaVillage | It’s Time to Tighten Up Digital POP (4 min read)
• AdExchanger | For Some Publishers, User Experience Trumps Revenue (3 min read)
• The Verge | Verizon Is Killing Tumblr’s Fight for Net Neutrality (9 min read)
• Axios | The tech giants eating the world (1 min read)
• PressGazette | Chief exec of US online publishers group backs Press Gazette Google/Facebook Duopoly campaign and says EU could tame them (2 min read)
• MarTech Today | Is retargeting dying? (5 min read)
• Ad Week | 33 Major Publishers Are Promising Advertisers a New Level of Safety and Transparency (2 min read)