1. Federal Election Commission shows how to disclose data in a digital democracy (Alexander Howard / Huffington Post)
2. Facebook rolls out news feed controls (Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal)
3. Twitter wants to celebrate your birthday, too (Pavithra Mohan / Fast Company)
4. Informing the world: An interview with AP’s Gary Pruitt (Alexander Heffner / The Open Mind) [VID]
5. YouTube pioneer Danny Zappin buys Facebook content factory ViralNova (Peter Kafka / Re/code)
6. The Globe and Mail tries to balance reinvention and familiarity in its new app (Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab)
7. Why the Great Glitch of July 8th should scare you (Zeynep Tufekci / Medium)