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

• Financial Times | Adtech funding drops in face of Facebook-Google duopoly (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Advertising’s Moral Struggle: Is Online Reach Worth the Hurt? (7 min read)
• CJR | NPR One: ‘We are the enemies of filter bubbles’ (3 min read)
• Fortune | How Google and Facebook Have Taken Over the Digital Ad Industry (5 min read)
• Billboard | Facebook Developing Copyright ID System to Stem Music Rights Infringement (3 min read)
• Vox | A law professor’s warning: we are closer to oligopoly than at any point in 100 years (12 min read)
• Buzzfeed | 2016: The Year We Stopped Listening To Big Tech’s Favorite Excuse (11 min read)
• ProPublica | Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them (6 min read)
• AVC | What Is Going To Happen In 2017 (4 min read)
• The Daily Beast | Our Murrow Moment (10 min read)
• Digiday | The Counterpuncher: The Guardian’s new CRO Hamish Nicklin is on a mission (9 min read)

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

• AdAge | Facebook Reveals New Advertiser Number Flaws (2 min)
• Politico | Donald Trump’s Real Threat to the Press (11 min)
• The New York Times | In Trump Era, Uncompromising TV News Should Be the Norm, Not the Exception (7 min)
• Digiday | Google still fuels fake-news websites through its complex web (3 min)
• The Wall Street Journal | Fake-News Sites Inadvertently Funded by Big Brands (4 min)
• The Guardian | 2016: the year Facebook became the bad guy (10 min)
• Re/code |  Net neutrality faces extinction under Trump (3 min)
• The New York Times | Forget AT&T. The Real Monopolies Are Google and Facebook. (4 min)
• The New Yorker | Gawker’s Demise and The Trump-Era Threat to The First Amendment (30 min)
• The Wall Street Journal | Ad Agencies Probed Over Contracts to Produce Commercials (4 min)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Ad Agencies Probed Over Contracts to Produce Commercials (4 min read)
• The Guardian | Google, democracy and the truth about internet search (26 min read)
• The New York Times | How Much Disclosure About an Op-Ed Author Is Required? (4 min read)
• Monday Note | Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible With News (8 min read)
• AdAge | New EU Data Regulations Will ‘Rip Global Digital Ecosystem Apart (3 min read)
• Quartz | Facebook must stop pretending to be innocently neutral and start acting more like a media company (7 min read)
• MarketingTech | Is adblocking becoming the new norm? (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Ads Show Up on Breitbart and Brands Blame Technology (3 min read)
• Poynter | Panama Papers journalists around the globe are being threatened (9 min read)
• The New York Times | A Warning for Americans From a Member of Pussy Riot (7 min read)
• Digiday | Opinion: It’s time for brands to step up on fake news (3 min read)

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

• Vanity Fair | Washington Post Editor Marty Baron Has A Message To Journalists In The Trump Era (9 min read)
• WSJ |Bloomberg CEO Justin Smith Talks Fake News Problem (2 min listen)
• Digiday | Confessions of a national newspaper exec: ‘Publishers haven’t got their shit together’ (4 min read)
• Mediatel | Europe’s new privacy rules are about shake adland to its core (5 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | Election Day mobile notifications offer peek into future of news delivery (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China (7 min read)
• Knowledge@Wharton | The End of Digital Advertising as We Know It (9 min read)
• Digiday | ‘The underbelly of the internet’: How content ad networks fund fake news (6 min read)
• The New York Times Magazine | Billionaires vs. the Press in the Era of Trump (16 min read)

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

• Recode | Facebook says it miscalculated more metrics, but it’s telling advertisers not to worry (2 min read)
• PageFair | Europe’s new privacy regime will disrupt the adtech Lumascape (9 min read)
• MTV News | Facebook’s Fake-News Problem and The Rise of The Postmodern Right (9 min read)
• The Washington Post | Our First Amendment test is here. We can’t afford to flunk it. (5 min read)
• MediaPost | Google And Facebook: The Terminators (4 min read)
• theMediaBriefing | World War Media: Adblocking is a distraction (4 min read)
• MediaFile | EDITORIAL – Beyond Truth: 5 Lessons for Future Journalists during the Trump Administration (10 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers brace for what happens if Facebook stops paying for live videos (3 min read)
• theMediaBriefing | How the Financial Times grows subscriptions by focusing on its journalism (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Review: ‘The Attention Merchant Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs (5 min read)
• MuckHacker | He Who Controls Traffic Reigns King (8 min read)

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

• Politico | How Trump Took Over the Media By Fighting It (16 min read)
• AdAge | Targeting on Publishers’ Websites May Be Due for a ‘Natural Correction’ (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal  |  Stop Ads That Follow You on Facebook, Google and the Web  (5 min read)
• Doc Searls | The Coming Curse of #SubSaturation: Too Many Subscriptions (2 min read)
• Press Think | Speaking truth to audience power (9 min read)
• Nieman Lab | After a slow start, Apple News is emerging as a significant traffic driver for some news orgs (5 min read)
• Recode | Google and Facebook are booming. Is the rest of the digital ad business sinking? (3 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek  | The NFL Was a Sure Thing for TV Networks. Until Now (15 min read)
• Marketingland  | SEE: How Twitter is stripping ads & engagement options off publisher content (4 min read)
• Buzzfeed  | How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News (7 min read)

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

• Recode | Platforms like Facebook’s Instant Articles and Google AMP are making it harder, not easier, to publish to the web  (6 min read)
• Politico | Guardian cuts costs but numbers ‘don’t add up’ (8 min read)
• Washington Post | The FCC just passed sweeping new rules to protect your online privacy (5 min read)
• Monday Note | The reigning absurdity in the digital news economy (6 min read)
• Stratechery | Apple Should Buy Netflix (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads (9 min read)
• eMarketer | Digital Advertising Beyond the Impression (3 min read)
• Business Insider | Guardian CEO David Pemsel tells us how much damage Google and Facebook are doing to the news business (9 min read)
• eMarketer | One in Five iOS Devices in the US Are Limiting Ad Tracking (2 min read)
• CNN Money | The plague of fake news is getting worse — here’s how to protect yourself (4 min read)
• Nieman Lab| New York magazine turns a history of shopping recommendations into a new online revenue stream (4 min read)
• Digiday | Snapchat stops autoplay, marketers grapple with declining view counts (3 min read)

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

• AdAge | Pritchard’s Priorities for ANA: Quality, Equality, Transparency (3 min listen)
• Ars Technica | FCC proposes broadband privacy rules despite opposition from ISPs (5 min read)
• Poynter | 40 percent of Financial Times readers stop ad-blocking when asked (2 min read)
• Bloomberg | Silicon Valley’s Miserable Euro Trip Is Just Getting Started (3 min read)
• TechCrunch | Facebook plans to reduce censorship, show more offensive but newsworthy content (3 min read)
• ProPublica | Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (4 min read)
• The Atlantic | What’s Missing From Mark Zuckerberg’s Memo on Peter Thiel (7 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | Plummeting Newspaper Ad Revenue Sparks New Wave of Changes (5 min read)
• Recode | Platforms like Facebook’s Instant Articles and Google AMP are making it harder, not easier, to publish to the web (6 min read)
• Digiday | ‘They have the advantage’: What Snapchat’s new deal means for media (3 min read)
• The Atlantic | Does Advertising Ruin Everything? (10 min read)

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

• Digiday | ‘We’ve created a monster’: Publishers vent ad tech frustrations (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | Three ways video is evolving for consumers – and marketers (4 min read)
• Digiday | What marketers need to know about the FCC’s proposed new consumer privacy rules (4 min read)
• baekdal | A Hard Look at YouTube Views vs TV Ratings (19-page report)
• The Washington Post | How the Committee to Protect Journalists broke with tradition to protest Trump (4 min read)
• Vanity Fair | How Two Newspapers Brought Down Donald Trump (9 min read)
• Digiday | Internet mysteries: Where does the disappearing ad dollar go? (5 min read)
• Politico | What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Netflix Isn’t Headed Toward a Happy Ending (4 min read)
• NPR | How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait (37 min listen)
• The Wall Street Journal | Why Twitter Is Actually a Media Company (4 min read)

Some of the best media industry stories from around the web:

• The Guardian | Where did the money go? Guardian buys its own ad inventory (3 min read)
• PageFair | Eight Things From Q3 Worth Knowing (3 min read)
• AdAge | FCC Privacy Plan Could Hamper Verizon’s Data Integration With AOL and Yahoo (3 min read)
• AdMonsters | Secret Society Debates the Future of Television Advertising (6 min read)
• Recode | Snapchat is pushing its publisher content almost out of sight (2 min read)
• The Hill | Privacy please, not lobbyists’ phony pleas for consistency (4 min read)
• New York Magazine | In Virtual Reality, Women Run the World (18 min read)
• AdWeek | The ANA’s New Alliance Wants to Provide the Blueprint for Multicultural Marketing (2 min read)
• MediaPost | The RTB Truth, Well Told (4 min read)
• AdAge | FCC Rules Requiring Opt-In for Location Data Use Are Closer to Reality (4 min read)
• Contently | Inside The Washington Post’s Quest to Fix Ad Tech (7 min read)

Some of the best media industry stories from around the web:

• Ad Age | Location Tracking and the Trouble With ‘Opting In’ (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | ANA Pushes Facebook for Greater Measurement Transparency (2 min read)
• The Atlantic | A Grand Bargain to Make Tech Companies Trustworthy (3 min read)
• Nieman Lab | ProPublica’s new Chrome extension wants to decipher what Facebook thinks it knows about its users (2 min read)
• Campaign | Facebook has just turned to the dark side (4 min read)
• The Independent | BBC Radio Director Helen Boaden resigns, criticising state of journalism (20 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | EU Is Pressing for Changes at Google (4 min read)
• Ad Contrarian | Data, Facts, And Principles (2 min read)
• Press Think | What journalists say back when they are criticized for mishandling coverage of Trump (22 min read)

Some of the best media industry stories from around the web:

• ProPublica | Breaking the Black Box Episode 1: Facebook (2 min listen)
• CJR | Facebook is being taken somewhere it never wanted to go (5 min read)
• New York Times | A Choice Beyond Cable Box Rentals? It May Hinge on a Swing Voter (4 min read)
• The Ad Contrarian | The Devaluation of Creativity (8 min read)
• AdAge | In an Ad Blocking Battle, Whose Side Is Google On? (3 min read)
• Digiday | Confessions of an ad tech veteran: ‘You have no idea how much should be charged’ (3 min read)
• AdAge | AWNY Unveils New Identity: She Runs It (2 min read)
• Billboard | T Bone Burnett Goes on Anti-Free Streaming Warpath at Americana Fest Panel (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | Facebook Says It Gave Advertisers Inflated Video Metrics (3 min read)
• AdAge | Business Insider Testing a Reader Paywall, and an Ad-Blocking Response (2 min read)
• CJR | How should journalism cover terrorism? (3 min read)