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

• The Wall Street Journal | Financial Times Finds Counterfeit Ad Space Was Offered by at Least Six Companies (3 min read)
• Publishing Executive | The Dangers of the Digital Advertising Echo Chamber & How to Get Out (4 min read)
• Digiday | ‘We’ve learned a playbook’: How The Verge used Facebook video to grow Circuit Breaker (3 min read)
• The Drum | Amazon’s dismal NFL audience shows that TV’s naysayers deserve penalties (6 min read)
• The Washington Post | Pierre Omidyar: 6 ways social media has become a direct threat to democracy (5 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Facebook’s DC Nightmare Is Just Beginning (9 min read)
• NBC News | Advertisers Getting Nervous About Their Marriage to Google, Facebook (8 min read)
• The Guardian | Ofcom chair raises prospect of regulation for Google and Facebook (3 min read)
• Digiday | As Facebook Live video dreams fade, publishers look again to Twitter (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | Is Facebook spinning out of control over Russian revelations? (11 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google, Facebook, Twitter Scramble to Hold Washington at Bay (7 min read)