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

• The New York Times | How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions (16 min read)
• Digiday | ‘The end of the Wild West’: Facebook-Cambridge Analytica revelations cast shadow on online ad practices (4 min read)
• Wired | Facebook Owes You More Than This (7 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine (8 min read)
• Bloomberg | How Facebook Made Its Cambridge Analytica Data Crisis Even Worse (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | FTC opens investigation into Facebook after Cambridge Analytica scrapes millions of users’ personal information (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Google Makes $300 Million Commitment to Supporting News (3 min read)
• Digiday | Agent for change: The FT’s commercial chief Jon Slade is optimistic about publishing’s future (9 min read)
• The Guardian | Extremism pays. That’s why Silicon Valley isn’t shutting it down (4 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | YouTube wants the news audience, but not the responsibility (7 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Turn of the tide’: Industry execs strike a more hopeful note at Advertising Week Europe (4 min read)