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

• Wired | Stronger Privacy Laws Could Save Advertising From Itself (7 min read)
• The New York Times | He Buys a Lot of Ads, and He’s Frustrated With Digital (6 min read)
• Politico | How a telecom-tech alliance wiped out FCC’s privacy rules (5 min read)
• Fast Company | Why Ad Agencies Shouldn’t Fear Facebook’s Creative Shop (9 min read)
• Recode | Silicon Valley is beginning to fight the Trump administration’s net neutrality plan (2 min read)
• iPolitics | What happens when Postmedia finally dies? (6 min read)
• Digiday | Facebook faces increased publisher resistance to Instant Articles (4 min read)
• The Guardian | From nasty to nice: how adblockers are trying to pivot (5 min read)
• Digiday | How Bild uses Facebook Instant Articles to drive subscriptions (3 min read)
• The Times | Digital giants are trampling on the truth (5 min read)
• Digiday | The Atlantic is now telling ad blockers to whitelist or pay up (3 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Fake News and the Digital Duopoly (6 min read)
• TheVerge | Oath isn’t just a terrible name — it’s going to be a nightmare ad-tracking machine (6 min read)
• The New York Times | The Online Ad Industry Is Undergoing Self-Reflection. That’s Good News. (3 min read)
• Consumer Affairs | Broadband providers promise to protect consumers’ privacy (3 min read)
• Buzzfeed | In Spite Of The Crackdown, Fake News Publishers Are Still Earning Money From Major Ad Networks (11 min read)
• The Daily Beast | A YouTube Star, Reddit Detectives, and the Alt-Right Call Out a Fake News Story. Turns Out It Was Real. (5 min read)
• The Guardian | Tim Berners-Lee: selling private citizens’ browsing data is ‘disgusting’ ( 8 min read)
• AdExchanger | P&G’s Pritchard Tells Agencies To Step Up And Simplify (4 min read)
• Digiday | Will the duopoly face government intervention? (3 min read)

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

• Stratechery | Ad Agencies and Accountability (13 min read)
• FT | YouTube controversy shakes up digital advertising (6 min read)
• The New York Times Magazine | Platform Companies Are Becoming More Powerful — but What Exactly Do They Want? (7 min read)
• Axios | Almost 20% of digital ad spending could be wasted (1 min read)
• Monday Note | Quality for news is mostly about solving the reputation issue (5 min read)
• Engadget | FCC: Your cybersecurity isn’t our problem (5 min read)
• Digiday | Unraveling header bidding’s problems with user data (3 min read)
• Arvind Narayanan | The Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project (40 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘Disputed by multiple fact-checkers’: Facebook rolls out new alert to combat fake news (4 min read)
• Advertising Age | Coalition for Better Ads Might Not Be the Solution Marketers Were Hoping For (4 min read)
• TheMediaBriefing | ‘Truth’ is diluted when publishers chase scale (4 min read)

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

• World Wide Web Foundation | Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor (6 min read)
• Business Insider | A bug in Google’s AMP pages is inflating traffic metrics (2 min read)
• The Drum | ‘The stakes are super high’: Publishers at SXSW discuss the linear, creeping threat of ad blocking (4 min read)
• FT | Big news brings only tiny returns for publishers (4 min read)
• The Information | Facebook’s Uphill Battle To Win Back Publishers (4 min read)
• The Conversation | How Facebook and Google changed the advertising game (5 min read)
• Ad Age | Can Big Digital Players Meet P&G’s Measurement Deadline? It’s Far From Certain (4 min read)
• Buzzfeed | IJR Lands The Only Press Spot On Tillerson’s Plane To Asia (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | Trump’s media-bashing is making it easier for foreign regimes to gag the press (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Snapchat Pornography to Test Advertisers’ Tolerance for Risk (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | Forbes rebuilt its new mobile website as a Progressive Web App (4 min read)

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

• Advertising Age | P&G’s Pritchard Blasts Objections to His Digital Demands as ‘Head Fakes’ (6 min read)
• Bloomberg | Fox CEO Worried About Dismissal of Negative Stories as Fake News (2 min read)
• Poynter | Press freedom organizations are teaming up to start a news site (3 min read)
• The Mercury News | Wolverton: With addition of YouTube, pay TV market thriving — for now (5 min read)
• Select/all | Google’s Dangerous Identity Crisis (6 min read)
• The Guardian | Watchdog to launch inquiry into misuse of data in politics (5 min read)
• Contently | Changing the Currency in Advertising: Chartbeat Founder Tony Haile on the Future of Content Measurement (11 min read)
• The Outline | Google’s Featured Snippets Are Worse Than Fake News (13 min read)
• BBC | Facebook failed to remove sexualised images of children (5 min read)
• Consumer Reports | FCC Votes to Block New Internet Privacy Rule (7 min read)
• CJR | Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda (15 min read)
• Recode | Facebook has started to flag fake news stories (3 min read)

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

• BOKonAds | Data is fallout, not oil (16 min read)
• The Dr. Oz Show | Oz Talk: How Good Advertising Gets on Bad Websites (4 min video)
• The Guardian | Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media (24 min read)
• B&T | Nicole Sheffield: IAB Lost Control Of Digital Conversation (2 min read)
• AdExchanger | Republican-Led FCC Looks To Block ISP Privacy Rules (3 min read)
• Time | Don’t Dismiss President Trump’s Attacks on the Media as Mere Stupidity (18 min read)
• CNN | Former FCC chairman: Things are ‘going the way I feared’ (3 min read)
• The Drum | Will February 2017 go down as the month that destroyed adtech? (10 min read)
• AdExchanger | The Digital Ad Ecosystem Is Messy And TrustX Is Grabbing A Broom (5 min read)
• CNN | The real definition of fake news (4 min video)
• Columbia Journalism Review | We analyzed two weeks of Spicer press briefings. Here’s what we learned. (7 min read)
• Medium | Post Cable Networks (9 min read)

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

• Stratechery | Manifestos and Monopolies (12 min read)
• theMediaBriefing | The fatal flaw in subscription models (7 min read)
• New York Times | In Trump Era, Censorship May Start in the Newsroom (6 min read)
• Digiday | How platforms get publishers to play the access game (3 min read)
• The Upshot | We Avoid News We Don’t Like. Some Trump-Era Evidence. (5 min read)
• Ad Age | Premium Publishers Tell P&G’s Pritchard They Can Solve His Digital Ad Problems (5 min read)
• Axios | Google follows FB into video audit territory (1 min read)
• The New York Times | What Facebook Owes to Journalism (6 min read)
• Time | Don’t Dismiss President Trump’s Attacks on the Media as Mere Stupidity (18 min read)
• NiemanLab | Newsonomics: Craig Newmark, journalism’s new Six Million Dollar Man (14 min read)
• MediaShift | Who Cares if Facebook is a Media Company? (4 min read)

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

• Stratechery | Snap’s Apple Strategy (13 min read)
• Humane Tech | Tech and the Fake Market tactic (12 min read)
• Digiday | The Wall Street Journal to close Google loophole entirely (4 min read)
• News Corp | News Corp Chief Executive Says Digital Distributors Have “Eroded The Integrity Of Content” And Notes “Muddled Metrics” In Ad Market (3 min read)
• The Verge | Buzzfeed vs. Trump (15 min read)
• Wired | The New York Times Claws Its Way Into The Future (16 min read)
• CNN | Apple CEO Tim Cook calls for “massive campaign” against fake news (2 min read)
• The Washington Post | ‘Drop dead, media!’ Trump fans yelled — then bought the local papers (5 min read)
• The Telegraph | Journalists who obtain leaked official material could be sent to prison under new proposals (4 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Why Snap Is Worried About Net Neutrality (2 min read)
• Wired | John Oliver Returns to Out-News the News—by Ignoring Trump (7 min read)

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

• The Washington Post | The traditional way of reporting on a president is dead.
  And Trump’s press secretary killed it. (5 min read)
• TheMediaBriefing | Key takeaways from the Europe’s Successful Paid Content Strategies report (5 min read)
• Monday Note | Facebook Journalism Project is Nothing But A Much-Needed PR stunt (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Fake News, Google and Facebook Stroll to the Starting Line (5 min read)
• Poynter| What does a news organization optimized for trust look like? (5 min read)
• Buzzfeed | People Read News On Facebook But They Don’t Really Trust It, A Survey Found (5 min read)
• Quartz | The World Economic Forum is treating fake news as an urgent matter of global human rights (5 min read)
• Digiday | Scaled back: Why publishers are rethinking their pursuit of huge numbers (4 min read)
• MIT Technogy Review | New FCC Chief Likes a Good Mega-Merger—Net Neutrality, Not So Much (3 min read)
• Financial Times | BuzzFeed and online media rivals seek new models (4 min read)
• Stratechery | The Great Unbundling (13 min read)

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

• New York Times | Facebook, Nodding to Its Role in Media, Starts a Journalism Project (5 min read)
• Digiday | Why is third-party data still often wrong? (3 min read)
• Recode | Facebook is going to start showing ads in the middle of its videos and sharing the money with publishers (3 min read)
• FT | EU proposal on ad blockers welcomed by publishers (4 min read)
• AdExchanger | Full Disclosure: The FTC Has Its Eye On Cross-Device Tracking (4 min read)
• TechDirt | Ad Industry Wants New FCC Broadband Privacy Rules Gutted Because, Uh, Free Speech! (4 min read)
• Ars Technica | Facebook, Google face strict EU privacy rules that could hit ad revenues (3 min read)
• TheMediaBriefing | Where has all the ad spend gone? (4 min read)
• Fortune | How Google and Facebook Have Taken Over the Digital Ad Industry (5 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | Can Politicians and Singers Make Beautiful Music Together? (4 min read)
• The Guardian | Tim Wu: ‘The internet is like the classic story of the party that went sour’ (14 min read)