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

• The Washington Post | Mainstream advertising is still showing up on polarizing and misleading sites — despite efforts to stop it (11 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Federal Prosecutors Probe Ad Industry’s Media-Buying Practices (3 min read)
• Techcrunch | Europe is drawing fresh battle lines around the ethics of big data (16 min read)
• The New York Times | Russian Meddling Is a Symptom, Not the Disease (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | Trump Administration Sues California Over Net Neutrality Law (2 min read)
• Digiday | ‘We’re giving them a harder time’: Axel Springer tries to turn up heat on Facebook (4 min read)
• CNBC | Apple’s Tim Cook: ‘Don’t believe’ tech companies that say they need your data (3 min read)
• Medium | The Rumors of Podcasting’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (11 min read)
• The Washington Post | Big tech is still violating your privacy (5 min read)

Our picks of the must-read stories from around the web:

• Salon | Tech billionaires keep buying publications. Here’s what that means for the future of journalism (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Big Tech’s Business Model Is Broken, Report Says (3 min read)
• European Journalism Observatory | The Publisher’s Patron: How Google’s News Initiative Is Re-Defining Journalism (14 min read)
• Bloomberg | EU Eyes Facebook Privacy Practices, Are Other Social Media Next? (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | Instagram has a drug problem. Its algorithms make it worse. (9 min rad)
• Slate | The Temptation of Apple News (14 min read)
• Axios | Apple to tell Senate it backs “comprehensive” privacy rules (1 min read)
• Politico | The next antitrust standoff — Big Tech’s use of data (6 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Facebook doesn’t operate with real-world metrics’: GroupM talks tough on Facebook (5 min read)

Our picks of the must-read stories from around the web:

• Adweek | With Less Data-Driven Baggage, Can Apple Help Lead the Way on Advertising Privacy? (4 min read)
• The Verge | Google is giving up some control of the AMP format (4 min read)
• TechCrunch | Old media giants turn to VC for their next act (8 min read)
• Medium | Media Manipulation, Strategic Amplification, and Responsible Journalism (35 min read)
• Crownpeak | The GDPR’s Regulatory Bears Are Stirring – And They’re Not Happy About Your Half-Assed Compliance Efforts (5 min read)
• https://www.crownpeak.com/blog/general-data-protection-regulation/gdpr-regulatory-bears-are-stirring
• Digiday | Project Feels: How USA Today, ESPN and The New York Times are targeting ads to mood (4 min read)
• NPR | Does Facebook Really Work? People Question Effectiveness Of Ads (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | Fighting back against fake news: A new UN handbook aims to explain (and resist) our current information disorder (11 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Amazon Forecast to Be No. 3 Digital Advertising Player in 2018 (2 min read)
• The Guardian |  Ofcom to push for regulation of social networks (3 min read)
• Vulture | Bob Greenblatt Saved NBC. Now What? The TV exec opens up about the Peacock’s dark days, what else he’d love to reboot, and the streaming future. (5 min read)

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

• The New York Times | For Big Tech, a Comeuppance We’ve Seen Before: On Wall St. (6 min read)
• Yale Insights | Can Trusted Brands Beat ‘Fake News’? (12 min read)
• Business Insider | One viral thread shows how quickly YouTube steers people to wacko conspiracy theories and false information (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab | What works (and doesn’t) for advertising your news organization’s subscriptions (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Knows Where You’ve Been, but Does It Know Who You Are? (8 min read)
• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/magazine/google-maps-location-data-privacy.html
• Media Voices Podcast | Columbia Journalism Review’s Mathew Ingram on what publishers get wrong about trust (33 min listen)
• Digiday | ‘There’s just so little trust’: Marketers have growing suspicions of kickbacks in ad tech (6 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Americans expect to get their news from social media, but they don’t expect it to be accurate (2 min read)
• The New Yorker | Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? (70 min read)

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

• CNN | Trump slams Google search as ‘rigged’ — but it’s not (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Trump Accuses Google of Burying Conservative News in Search Results (7 min read)
• The New York Times | Trump’s Ludicrous Attack on Big Tech (7 min read)
• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/opinion/trump-bias-google-twitter.html
• FT | Why television’s bogeymen are here to stay (4 min read)
• Wired | NewsGuard Wants to Fight Fake News With Humans, Not Algorithms (7 min read)
• The Conversation | Advertising is obsolete – here’s why it’s time to end it (7 min read)
• The New York Times | Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law, on Its Own Terms (7 min read)
• Wired | The Fight Over California’s Privacy Bill Has Only Just Begun (8 min read)
• Digiday | Once powerful, portals fade as video-syndication revenue sources (6 min read)
• MediaPost | Bing’s New Spotlight In Search May Force Publishers To Rethink News Content (1 min read)
• Recode | Watch: Recode’s Kara Swisher on HBO’s ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ (7 min view)

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

• Financial Times | Brussels to act against tech groups over terror content (3 min read)
• Ad Week | Google Is Collecting Your Data—Even When Your Phone Isn’t in Use (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | Don’t want Google tracking you? You have almost no choice, according to a study. (3 min read)
• The New York Times | ‘Weaponized Ad Technology’: Facebook’s Moneymaker Gets a Critical Eye (7 min read)
• Variety | How Hollywood Is Racing to Catch Up With Netflix (16 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Identifies New Influence Operations Spanning Globe (7 min read)
• CNBC | Millennials are going to extreme lengths to share streaming passwords, and companies are missing out on millions (6 min read)
• The Washington Post | This is the moment all of Trump’s anti-media rhetoric has been working toward (4 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | The Woman Behind the New York Times’ High-Risk, High-Reward Business Strategy (5 min read)
• AP | AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not (7 min read)
• The Verge | Netflix, Amazon Video, and Xfinity are accidentally re-creating cable TV (7 min read)
• Medium | Dear Journalists: The war on what you do is escalating. You need to escalate your response—by working together. (9 min read)
• Bloomberg | Who Killed the Great American Cable-TV Bundle? (11 min read)
• Politico | Tour de Dorsey (6 min read)
• Washingtonian | Why the Washington Post’s Twitter Has Been So Good Lately (3 min read)
• The New York Times Magazine| The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won (43 min read)

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

• CNET | Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify ban Infowars, touching off censorship debate (3 min read)
• Nieman Lab | What is a Scandinavian media company’s first-ever director of public policy up against? (13 min read)
• The New York Times | The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | A German Publisher Is Winning the Internet (7 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | Should journalists and researchers get a special exemption from Facebook’s rules? (3 min read)
• The Lenfest Institute | Hold on there, pardner: Texas Monthly is running a test to stop readers who use ad-blockers (11 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘Just use cat videos’: New York Times boss wants Facebook to cut out news (6 min read)
• Recode | The tech industry needs to reckon with the dark side of advertising, WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg says (1h listen)

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

• The Guardian | A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica (5 min read)
• Business Insider | ‘Who thought they would buy Whole Foods?’: Industry insiders see Amazon as the ultimate wild card in the media merger wars (7 min read)
• The Washington Post | The Trump administration is talking to Facebook and Google about potential rules for online privacy (6 min read)
• The Intercept | Google plans to launch censored search engine in China, leaked documents reveal (8 min read)
• The New York Times | New York Times Publisher and Trump Clash Over President’s Threats Against Journalism (6 min read)
• NBC News | Could digital media startups fill the vacuum left by community newspapers? (6 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | Leaked white paper proposes Congressional regulation of social media (3 min read)
• TechCrunch | Google partners with news orgs to show more data in its search results (1 min read)
• Poltico | Trump’s ‘fake news’ rhetoric crops up around the globe (5 min read)

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

• The New York Times | E.U. Fines Google $5.1 Billion in Android Antitrust Case (5 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Facebook Proves It Isn’t Ready To Handle Fake News (5 min read)
• Wired | Judd Legum Wants to Fix News With a Newsletter (8 min read)
• Bloomberg | Netflix Is King No More as Disney Retakes Media-Company Crown (4 min read)
• Marketing Land | Facebook’s automated systems to monitor political advertisers are blocking the wrong ads (3 min read)
•  NPR | Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans’ Trust In Local News (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Two Senators Call for Investigation of Smart TV Industry (6 min read)
• Quartz | Walmart is reportedly planning a video streaming service to compete with Netflix and Amazon (2 min read)
• Recode | Full transcript: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Recode Decode (1h read or 1h 22 min listen)
• The Ken | The Ken raises $1.5M in its Series A Round (5 min read)
• CNN | Facebook touts fight on fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isn’t banned (4 min read)

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

• Wired | YouTube Debuts Plan to Promote and Fund ‘Authoritative’ News (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How Google and Facebook Are Monopolizing Ideas (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | Facebook is slapped with first fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Enough with the “Netflix for audio.” Podcast companies should take a cue from meditation apps instead (11 min read)
• MediaPost | Apple, Alphabet CEOs Questioned By Congress About Tracking Data (2 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | European Networks Are Joining Forces to Take On Netflix and Amazon (8 min read)
• AdExchanger | Washington Post Builds Tech That Dynamically Inserts Ads Into Podcasts (2 min read)
• The Guardian | Electoral law has been broken – this is a fight for the soul of our democracy (10 min read)
• Digiday | ‘They’re passing the liability onto us’: Publishers balk at Publicis Media’s new GDPR requirements (6 min read)
• Variety | Rise: Why China’s Internet is Bigger… And Different (3 min read)

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

• The Washington Post | California is on the verge of passing a sweeping new online privacy law targeting Facebook, Google and other tech giants (3 min read)
• The Information | Apple Eyes Streaming Bundle for TV, Music and News (4 min read)
• Forbrukerrådet | New analysis shows how Facebook and Google push users into sharing personal data (3 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | Facebook’s Latest Problem: It Can’t Track Where Much of the Data Went (subscription required)
• Nieman Lab | The Washington Post’s The Lily is building its Instagram aesthetic and sharing news with millennial women in the process (5 min read)
• The Wrap | Tim Cook on Why Apple News Needs Human Editors: ‘News Was Kind of Going a Little Crazy’ (1 min read)
• Poynter | Reliability ratings from journalists could actually help audiences identify misinformation (2 min read)
• Digiday | NYT’s head of ads Sebastian Tomich: The role of the publisher is to sell ideas (2 min read / 37 min listen)
• Fast Company | Mozilla’s Firefox aims to alert users if they’ve been hacked (1 min read)