Americans face growing threats to their financial security as Trump sidelines consumer protection for your $. How agentic AI could turbocharge fraud | Payments Dive www.paymentsdive.com/news/how-age...

In the Gen AI commercial surveillance marketing era: Palantir & Stagwell partnership. Here's what it does: "The platform is AI-based to enable large companies... to sift through tens of millions of records to identify, segment, and better understand audiences..." bit.ly/3JndplF

With FTC & federal gov't failing to protect public from Gen AI dangers, state AGs, others should be investigating agentic AI advertising ops, such as new "Ad Context Protocol." Let's not keep repeating mistakes and hold #bigtech & role of marketing accountable. adcontextprotocol.org/docs/intro/

llustrating Gen AI dangers we face: "Tech industry is looking to the president to knock down any remaining Biden-era regs," says Politico. Among co's involved via their lobbying/trade groups include Google, Meta, Amazon. It's all about further monetizing you, families, communities, countries.

FCC plan to pressure local TV news on so-called "news distortion" where Maga-like public interest viewpoints dominate--as well as its spectrum & 5G policies that further that power--should be on a democratic reform agenda. bit.ly/4oLl2B7

This GenAI #bigtech alliance will expand commercial surveillance marketing globally & raises antitrust, privacy, consumer protection issues. AWS announces new partnership to power OpenAI's AI workloads. www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws...

Without a #CFPB & #FTC committed to protecting people over #BigTech, US consumer financial well-being threatened by growing role of agentic AI in payments. See, for ex. newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-10-28-O...; cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

That the Trump Adm and its FTC missing the biggest threat to US consumers in decades--from Gen AI data tactics--says a lot about their priorities. American privacy at risk--along with their $. democraticmedia.org/publishings/...

Mark Zuckerberg feels so immune from Trump Adm FTC that Meta doesn't even offer ineffective opt-out on AI surveillance marketing. Says a lot about what he knows goes on there! www.mediapost.com/publications...

Is Trump FTC concerned more about your AI privacy & safety or Meta's growing grab of our info? Dozens of advocates tell #FTC to act asap, enforce its rules. Key test for #FTC in the #GenAI era. bit.ly/3X3sWdm

Financial regulators & advocates, & responsible investors, should investigate Meta bond scheme. www.theinformation.com/articles/cre...

China will still be the "boss" in TikTok deal, raising questions about how & what data is gathered & used. Ongoing ad targeting isn't protecting privacy or security. "latest changes put almost all of TikTok’s business operations under Chinese execs who are ByteDance veterans." bit.ly/4nsOqeu

The WaPo staff should protest what its owner and editorial team have done to its repulation and role. Bezos should be asked to donate WaPo to an independent NGO dedicated to journalism Washington Post Defends Trump Demolition of White House East Wing

Shame on Hollywood Unions & those concerned about democracy in US. Speak out against Warner/Discovery/CNN sale, esp to Paramount/Skydance (which will have TikTok too!). #WGA esp should stand up here. Springsteen, Elizabeth Warren & the Last Populists in Hollywood open.substack.com/pub/theankle...

The Trump Adm is responsible for protecting Americans from rampant GenAI-driven data tactics threatening American consumers. It's hands-off self-serving approach is giving permission for AI-dominated commercial surveillance to explode online/offline.

AI browsers--commercial surveillance via GenAI. Regulators & advocates should address agentic AI search, data gathering, ad delivery & marketing systems that can threaten privacy, financial security, health & consumer protection. bit.ly/3L0q9yV

Sale of Warner/Discovery/CNN should set off alarms--it's example of how structural failures in US to regulate older & digital media led us to the threats to democracy we face. Many issues, inc. potential TikTok, Paramount/CBS, Warner/CNN Maga influenced combine. www.techpolicy.press/trumps-tikto...

The Trump FTC is afraid of facing the truth. www.wired.com/story/ftc-re...

#NoKings ad for Dubuque, Iowa 🤣🔥

Another example of Trump led #FTC #CFPB failing to protect consumers & our $ in GenAI agentic payment & marketing era. These agencies are DMIA--digitally missing in action. Global/state regulators should address: See: bit.ly/4hboNNK; bit.ly/4hdXpPb

With US privacy, consumerprotection & antitrust agencies sidelined, Big Data+AI+commercial surveillance marketing giants combine forces. Global regulators/advocates take note: bit.ly/478nPNL

If the US had a working FTC & CFPB, it would be sounding consumer protection alarm on Walmart+OpenAI deal: Through AI-first shopping, the retail experience shifts from reactive to proactive as it learns, plans and predicts, helping customers anticipate their needs before they do." bit.ly/3L9jmTu

Public health & other safeguards needed as Gen AI further pushes food/beverage marketing. Instacart, Uber, DoorDash bringing food delivery to ChatGPT www.grocerydive.com/news/chatgpt... via @grocerydive

There should be broad opposition to the Trump Adm TikTok deal, as part of U.S. digital media reforms to serve democracy. TikTok, Google, Meta & most other commercial surveillance operations largely operate in similar ways; multiple and growing via AI harms. bit.ly/4n2JWLy

Why Trump's #TikTok deal should be fought. Greater surveillance, less privacy, more power for Meta, Google & other AI/BigTech giants & expanded MAGA influence over our media. www.techpolicy.press/trumps-tikto...

What is the Trump FTC under @AFergusonFTC doing to stop Meta's further & ongoing weakening of privacy, inc. no opt-outs for Meta AI ads. By ignoring this problem, FTC further reveals no consumer data watchdog in DC. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

What is the Trump #FTC under @AFergusonFTC doing to protect Americans privacy as GenAI & retail media networks explode, capturing our data, $ & more. More giveaways to #BiggestTech. Ex: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

What do the Ellison's give the US public--more branded content via Paramount/CBS. From Ad Week/NYC. "unskippable AI-powered ad formats are reshaping the future of brand integration. By moving beyond traditional product placement, these approaches embed brands into entertainment..."

Inspiration for these times as civil society, inc scholars, successfully pushed back on anti-democratic & racist movements in 1930s. It can happen here. Gotham at War - Mike Wallace - Oxford University Press. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up! We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

Google has always been just a data marketing agency despite its delusional self-promotion. But these headlines say so much. judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the... www.axios.com/2025/09/29/y...

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

House committee prods social media platforms about extremist activity | Semafor. Connect Ellison, TikTik,Paramount/CBS, likely Warner/CNN, Carr, spectrum, local broadcasters, etc. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Attention Antitrust, Privacy Regulators worldwide. Amazon Ads announces Netflix integration | Amazon Ads. See too: aws.amazon.com/solutions/ca... advertising.amazon.com/library/news...

Annals of US sponsored commercial surveillance. www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/09...

This is also too small a settlement by the Trump/Vance FTC, given that Amazon's US overall US revenues in 2024 was $438 billion. No federal watchdogs on the #bigtech beat any more.

This settlement generated in part by the EU/US coalition of digital rights groups (TACD) that made "dark patterns" a major policy issue in US, as well as Lina Khan FTC commission--which understood dark pattern manipulation is at core of commercial surveillance marketing biz model. bit.ly/46EIw3u

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The likely merger and integration of CNN & CBS News, with conservative editorial direction, is a major event requiring action (and involves TikTok + streaming too). Cold Front at CNN www.status.news/p/cnn-david-...

Among consequences of Trump brokered US TikTok deal, displacing progressive/liberal views. As eMarketer notes, via Pew "TikTok is the only major app where left-leaning news influencers outnumber right-leaning ones (28% vs. 25%). If ownership tilts conservative...balance could shift." bit.ly/46h0eLE

Public health, consumer, data protections raised by this deal, as well as media content integrity. #alcohol #digitalmarketing #streaming. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

The US is about to endorse full force platform commercial surveillance marketing by brokering a TikTok deal that fails to provide privacy, Gen AI, consumer protections, competition, youth safeguards. All the failures in past to regulate social media ignored for a "deal" that rewards BigTech.

The pending TikTok deal by Trump Adm has vast implications for the privacy & online consumer protections of Americans, not to mention competition issues (With now News Corp, Paramount/CBS, possibly Warner/CNN, more. @AFergusonFTC should speak out about the dangers. www.axios.com/2025/09/21/t...

USA approving and likely profiting from the manipulative commercial surveillance marketing system operating online by TikTok, Google, Meta, & many others. US gov’t won’t want to address privacy, consumer, & competition threats because while it would protect people, such actions threaten the “deal.”

Critical to examine what Trump Adm, FCC & their political allies doing with broadcast stations & network affiliate relationships, as well as new digital capacities (5G) stations will have to influence public. Part of their plans to restructure US media biz. Need push for democratic alternative.

The dominance of data driven commercial surveillance marketing for online continues via Gen AI. Time to intervene is now if we don’t want to keep repeating all the failures to act since the 90s. insideretail.asia/2025/09/18/t...

Attention antitrust, data protection & financial regulators (& maybe a Judge or 2). www.mi-3.com.au/17-09-2025/g...

The FTC under Ds & Rs failed to protect consumers, even kids, for decades; esp since introduction of online in 90s. If FTC replaces CFPB, your fundamental protections will be lost. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

If USA owns part of TikTok, it will endorse online commercial surveillance model that is helping undermine democracy & privacy everywhere. Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. and China Agree on ‘Framework’ for TikTok Deal, Bessent Says www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... via @NYTimes