The online petition to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit has not only now surpassed 5 million signatures, it has also been given a clean bill of health from the BBC. The corporation asked cyber experts if it were possible the petition was being bolstered by bots, but the answer is the email confirmation step, before a signature is counted, means it is highly unlikely.

Damian Collins, the Chair of the influential DCMS parliamentary committee, believes he has evidence that shows Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica's misuse of personal data before the company acknowledged it. "The Guardian" writes that the MP believes the company has "misled" investigators. Facebook rejects the accusation.

Newsquest has won a GBP345,000 grant from Google to develop a platform through which local people can submit, what it is calling, "ready for publication" stories. "Press Gazette" writes that the budget handed over by Google is part of a GBP130m pot the tech giant has set aside to support digital news gathering projects over the next three years.

Brexit is, of course, dominating the news headlines, so much so that "Wired" brings news of a petition to revoke Article 50 receiving more than a million signatures in its first day (a figure it has since more than doubled) "breaking the internet" as it did so.

The new management team for Wunderman Thompson has been unveiled, with "Campaign" making the point that most senior roles appear to have gone to Wunderman execs rather than those from JWT. Pip Hulbert is confirmed as CEO. Her equivalent at JWT, James Whitehead, is to take on a new global client role.

Mindshare has poached Vizeum's Jem Lloyd-Williams to be its next CEO. "Campaign" reminds that the new appointment comes at a time when the WPP agency has suffered some high-profile account losses, such as HSBC and American Express.

As the new F1 season gets underway, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling on governments to honour their commitment to ban tobacco advertising. "Campaign" points out that the move from WHO comes after British American Tobacco announced a sponsorship deal with the UK-based McLaren team.

The latest figures from PAMCo show 25 million Britons are reading a UK newspaper or checking out its site every day, "Press Gazette" reports. "The Sun" remains the country's most read newspaper at 29.28m readers (print and online) per day.

Cardiff-based semiconductor business IQE, which supplies Apple, has seen its latest profit halved compared to the year before, due to "greatly reduced" demand, "The Telegraph" writes.

Any adland execs thinking of setting up shop in New York might well want to check out Mediatel and its questionnaire feature with five company heads who have gone before them. The overall tone is that it is a tough, competitive market that was working out just fine before you arrived, so don't presume it's going to be easy and the city was just waiting for your arrival.