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

• The Washington Post | Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism. It’s time to stop them. (5 min read)

   

• Doc Searls Weblog | How the personal data extraction industry ends (4 min read)
• Digiday | German publishers are joining forces against the duopoly (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Google Issuing Refunds to Advertisers Over Fake Traffic, Plans New Safeguard (5 min read)
• MediaShift | How Will Changes in Google AMP Results Affect Your Newsroom? (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant (7 min read)
• StreetFight | Hearst’s Barrett on Talks With Facebook: Progress, but More Needs to Happen (8 min read)
• The Financial Times | Big Tech can no longer be allowed to police itself (5 min read)
• Digiday | Ad buyers blast Facebook Audience Network for placing ads on Breitbart (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Publishers Are Making More Video—Whether You Want It or Not (4 min read)
• NPR | Judge Tosses Sarah Palin’s Defamation Lawsuit Against ‘The New York Times’ (2 min read)
• Multichannel News | Illegal Streams of Mayweather-McGregor Bout Reach 2.9M Viewers (1 min read)