Meta/social media addiction: Answer by Meta AI "Adolescents (13-17 years old) are a significant market for Meta, given their high social media usage and influence on family spending. Meta's platforms have a large user base in this age group, making them a key demographic for advertisers."

Jeff Bezos profits on bended knee as journalism for democracy burns. Politico: "Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts--ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, and even as its profits jumped by 45 percent to nearly $90 billion..."

How long will Anthropic keep promise? "history of ad-supported products suggests that ad incentives...expand over time...integrated into revenue targets and product development, blurring boundaries ...once more clear-cut. We’ve chosen not to introduce these..." www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Commercial Surveillance marketing shaped online operations since start, now enables role Gen AI plays in disinformation. As AI by Platforms/Brands unleash real-time personalized media omnichannel, fake will become more commonplace. Digital media reform req'd. Background ex: bit.ly/3M4h09u

FTC @AFergusonFTC doesn't understand the kids' digital market. Age verification a distraction. You need to regulate the ever accelerating commercial surveillance marketing system. Real "privacy by design" eliminates the branding, selling, engagement, etc--now driven by Gen AI. bit.ly/4qR8ycH

Relevant to Netflix/WBD; commercial surveillance 3.0; furthering reduction of content diversity, etc. "The Math Doesn't Work": Why 2026's $1T Ad Market Is Bad News for Storytellers, by @aagave open.substack.com/pub/parqor/p...

FTC fiddles while U.S. consumer privacy protections further evaporate. Under @AFergusonFTC agency ignoring the gravest threats to privacy in decades--helping usher in Commercial Surveillance 3.0 www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Trump TikTok impact, privacy. www.mi-3.com.au/27-01-2026/n...

"If the murder of Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis cannot be called murder, an authoritarian regime has passed one of its crucial tests: it can reverse all meanings, turning the ultimate moral transgression upside down..." www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

Beware social media addiction/youth settlements as Gen AI commercial surveillance ops further transforms all platforms & experiences, incl. TikTok. Waiting to see details, but if it doesn't address agentic addiction/manipulation, misses what's going on. www.reuters.com/world/tiktok...

Typical Meta ploy with youth as key market as it builds its Gen AI commercial surveillance marketing. Meta AI companion crackdown could reshape future ad opportunities www.insiderintelligence.com/content/meta...

Agree with those calling for Alphabet/Google; Meta/Instagram/WhatsApp; Amazon/Prime/AWS & Apple (phone, TV, app) to speak out against threats to democracy & public safety from ICE/DHS. CEOs, execs, & staff. Opportunity to try & redress recent ethical failures by your companies.

Trump Adm surveillance--kids' schools: "US IMMIGRATION AND Customs Enforcement is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities,”...https://www.wired.com/story/ice-a

Warning signs flash as Gen AI delivers Commercial Surveillance 3.0 in U.S. and worldwide-- Commentary: Ads in ChatGPT open a new door for dangerous influence www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/c...

The Facebook early “Beacon” ads playbook comes to OpenAI as commercial surveillance marketing becomes core DNA of GenAI/agentic commerce. www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

As well as 2024 US election under major threat via The New Yorker

Congress can freeze out funding for ICE in 2 weeks — but only if Democrats are a unified opposition. To make that happen, we must flood their offices with calls to demand ICE Out For Good. Call your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... Call your representative: indivisible.org/ice-out-hous...

GenAI was always going to be about ads & the commercial surveillance. @OpenAI claims should be dismissed as digital "Trojan Horse." The most powerful brands & advertisers will be structuring GenAI platforms/search--much of that work has begun. US federal regulators failing public. bit.ly/4sSxVwn

Google's "Building Personal Intelligence" paper reflects decades long-promises for safety & privacy online--which has resulted in unprecedented commercial surveillance & many other harms. Its quest to mobilize its GenAI across the global financial & commerce system. ai.google/static/docum...

Google's further moves into agentic AI driven commerce & payments raise concerns over its power with our financial system, personal economic security, consumer protection and privacy. The Trump Adm cheerleads instead of requiring safeguards--hurting Americans and many more. Part 1. bit.ly/4bA5SLM

At the upcoming workshop, we can't imagine that @AFergusonFTC commission will ask for info about the various identity measures used to further surveillance pricing by retailers & others. Hint--look into a mirror. bit.ly/3NGIz95

Here's another issue that FTC under @AFergusonFTC not likely to ask at hearing. How has one of the most popular forms of digital applications grown even stronger gathering US consumer data & engaging in commercial surveillance? 📷 bit.ly/3NGIz95

Rohit Chopra at CFPB was working 24/7 to protect US consumers' financial security, inc. privacy, from the AI & surveillance-driven agentic AI commerce. Khan #FTC was working on #antitrust impacts. Trump Adm., however, cheerleads/ignores. bit.ly/4aXHDqO

Wouldn't you have to direct this to the Ellison, UAE investors, etc now to ensure it impacts US. www.contentgrip.com/tiktok-us-de...

In what ways has the commercial surveillance pricing infrastructure expanded during the first year of the Trump Adm? Another issue we don't believe the FTC under @AFergusonFTC will raise. bit.ly/3NGIz95

We are starting series of questions we believe FTC under @AFergusonFTC won’t answer at workshop. Q1. How much more data, Andrew, is being stealthily gathered on Americans today? FTC to Host Workshop on Consumer Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

We doubt FTC can be candid with the American people about the explosive growth of data-driven commercial surveillance marketing & show what the real "costs and benefits of behavioral and contextual advertising" are to consumers & others. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

We agree @techpolicypress. This critically important article on Gen AI systems, memory & personalization by scholar Gathoni Ireri is required reading for policymakers & advocates. We should heed its warnings & take action now. www.techpolicy.press/what-we-risk...

The merging of commercial surveillance data operations should be a focus of any review of Netflix & WBD--that's how streaming works today. Market power, privacy, diversity etc. For ex. adsales.wbd.com/products-sol...; advertising.netflix.com/en-us/articl...

State AI regulatory agenda should include safeguards for agentic payment systems, esp. tied to ecommerce & surveillance marketing. Require indep. assessment before these "we will make you pay" systems rack up greater consumer debt. Example: newsroom.paypal-corp.com/index.php?s=...

Role of AI-enabled ads by Netflix, its data practices & partnerships (Amazon) must be part of antitrust reviews for planned #WBD takeover. For ex. about.netflix.com/en/news/amaz...; advertising.netflix.com/en-us/target...

Gen AI fueled commercial surveillance marketing worldwide will be indication in 2026 that AI must be regulated for its scope, impacts, privacy. Agentic payments, agentic adtech, agentic personalization reveals much of AI's promise will be focused on helping brands, platforms, retailers, lenders.

Scrutiny required regarding Trump new EO on 6G spectrum, further enabling telecom giants (inc. Starlink) to gain even more control of the digital system (following spectrum giveways in GOP budget bill). www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Surveillance pricing has been "baked in" to the commercial surveillance marketing system, with retailers, grocers, airlines & many others using the same set of tools used by Google, Meta & other Gen AI+Big Data marketers.

The U.S. TikTok sale is a scam and sham. Your data won't be safe as global marketers use the platform; it furthers media consolidation with Oracle connection to Paramount/Skydance & MGX set of alliances & relationships. No real consumer/privacy, GenAI safeguards. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

Tired of being ripped off? Here's one way we can all help stop the scams. Americans file complaints with 176 different government agencies, and most people don't know about them in the first place. A new proposal for Complaints.gov would fix this broken system: open.substack.com/pub/vanderbi...

Smart TVs already are surveillance tools & Gen AI increasingly used: "LG has added Microsoft’s Copilot to webOS TVs via a software update, and it cannot be uninstalled...update also enables Live Plus by default, which uses viewing data for personalized recommendations and ads..." bit.ly/3MAbs6F

A Netflix/Ellison/Paramount "deal" would bring multiple harms to content & ownership diversity, consumer protection, privacy in US and worldwide. Stop the #WBD sale. www.theinformation.com/articles/net...

Illustrates urgent need to regulate Gen AI marketing & monetization practices as commercial surveillance ads shape its models & outputs. www.axios.com/2025/12/11/o...

We need major overhaul of digital media marketplace & Netflix WBD deal key time to articulate vision, get support. Even with Warner still standing, the global biz has changed & we should be offering options delivering diversity, autonomy, competition. prospect.org/2025/12/05/n...

Netflix+Warner underscores failure to regulate US media to serve the public interest in digital era. Content diversity, creativity, & commitment to democratic values should be core function. Left with the Ellison's, Comcast, Netflix. Should be wake-up call to advocates, funders, indies, scholars.

Does #Ofcom recognize the trade offs with privacy, commercialization & exposure to marketing when it praises BBC kids programming shown on Google YouTube. Feeding UK kids into the commercial surveillance Gen AI marketing machine. www.c21media.net/news/ofcom-e...

Americans face grave consumer protection risks--to their finances, health, privacy, families--if Congress enacts a law preventing your state protecting you from the growing # of AI abuses. This bill is nothing more than surrender to BigTech AI lobbyists over the welfare of U.S. public.

Agentic commerce part of commercial surveillance system. “Black Friday” 2025. Where are the safeguards. Where are regulators? newsroom.paypal-corp.com/index.php?s=...

GenAI continues to advance role in commercial surveillance (agentic) marketing worldwide. US policymakers failing to protect public. Introducing shopping research in ChatGPT | OpenAI openai.com/index/chatgp...

Consortium of universities & others need to focus on real & growing risks with GenAI--not just opportunities. They need to sound alarm over the many ways GenAI+BigTech in commercial surveillance era will undermine democracy, consumer protection, more. No law.utexas.edu/ai/ai-opport...

Leaving consumers, families, parents/kids vulnerable to GenAI tactics, while protecting #BIgTech #AI investors, inc. from Trump Adm. They don't want any regulation safeguards as agentic AI impacts your finances, health, privacy & more. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Congrats to @thelancet & research team. On #obesity agenda must be total transformation of UPP industry as consequence of digital & Gen AI tech within core of all their operations, including marketing. Unleashing greater capabilities on persuasion, targeting, product development, etc.

Ballroom Lobby-Blitz Creates New Favor Seeking Opportunities for Lobbyists www.citizen.org/article/ball...

Ellison @Skydance lobbying blitz as they plan to takeover @warnerbros @CNN after @ParamountPics @CBS & possible #TikTok control too. Via Politico: "first outside lobbying hire...retained Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck" Illustrates why US media reforms must be high on agenda.