In early 2017, Eyeo (the company that developed and published the popular browser extension Adblock Plus) named the first members to an independent board tasked with deciding which advertisements would be allowed to pass through its filter for free. This independent review board decides which ads are “acceptable.” This board

In early 2017, Ev Williams (The CEO of Medium and one of the Co-Founders of Twitter) laid off his company’s entire ad sales team of 50 people. In a Medium blog post to explain his decision to back away from ads, Williams said “The current system causes increasing amounts of misinformation…and