Jeff Chester
@chesterj1.bsky.social
Public interest advocate focused on digital media and online marketing accountability, inc. content diversity, ad practices, antitrust, privacy, journalism and consumer protection
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.
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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...
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HOME TO THE INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY
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December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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.
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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?
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PayPal and Perplexity Launch Instant Buy Ahead of Black Friday
PayPal is the first wallet enabling seamless checkout experiences within Perplexity for U.S. users.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Agentic commerce part of commercial surveillance system. “Black Friday” 2025. Where are the safeguards. Where are regulators?
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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...
Introducing shopping research in ChatGPT
A new shopping experience that helps you find the right products for you.
openai.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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...
AI Opportunity Inventory
From improving healthcare outcomes and educational access to accelerating energy development and enhancing disaster response, AI presents profound opportunities. Our goal is to make these opportunitie...
law.utexas.edu
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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-...
Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order
The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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.
Ultra-processed foods – what’s the impact?
In a new Lancet Series, experts warn a global rise in #UPFs presents a growing public health threat.
Read the evidence & policy recommendations ⬇️
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In a new Lancet Series, experts warn a global rise in #UPFs presents a growing public health threat.
Read the evidence & policy recommendations ⬇️
spkl.io/63327AduhR
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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...
Ballroom Lobby-Blitz Creates New Favor Seeking Opportunities for Lobbyists - Public Citizen
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November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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.
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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.
EU about to trash its digital human rights legacy; even trades see Digital Omnibus as "not just a tune-up — it is a broad re-opening of Europe’s privacy framework...[will] Accelerate AI-driven optimization and targeting...more processing could occur without explicit consent." bit.ly/4pfJZou
Ad Tech Briefing: Digital Omnibus is about to land — here’s what it means for GDPR, and the future of ad targeting
Europe's Digital Omnibus could redefine data rules — and shift power in digital advertising.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
EU about to trash its digital human rights legacy; even trades see Digital Omnibus as "not just a tune-up — it is a broad re-opening of Europe’s privacy framework...[will] Accelerate AI-driven optimization and targeting...more processing could occur without explicit consent." bit.ly/4pfJZou
Meta ruling underscores # of issues. Regulators have been behind the ball analyzing digital marketing system. We need to push for strong data protection & GenAI use policies; bring antitrust to partnerships/alliances inc omnichannel; better enforce consumer protection online. bit.ly/4oQ7hBM
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November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Meta ruling underscores # of issues. Regulators have been behind the ball analyzing digital marketing system. We need to push for strong data protection & GenAI use policies; bring antitrust to partnerships/alliances inc omnichannel; better enforce consumer protection online. bit.ly/4oQ7hBM
GenAI investments to fuel global commercial surveillance marketing economy. Google, Meta, Amazon. Financial, privacy, consumer risks while US gov't enables.
Amazon to raise $15 billion in first US bond sale in three years to fund AI push www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Amazon to raise $15 billion in first US bond sale in three years to fund AI push www.reuters.com/business/ret...
www.reuters.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
GenAI investments to fuel global commercial surveillance marketing economy. Google, Meta, Amazon. Financial, privacy, consumer risks while US gov't enables.
Amazon to raise $15 billion in first US bond sale in three years to fund AI push www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Amazon to raise $15 billion in first US bond sale in three years to fund AI push www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Making US unsafe from GenAI. "House R leaders are searching for a legislative vehicle they could attach language to that would effectively ban state regulation of AI...debating is the annual defense policy bill...the National Defense Authorization Act."
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House eyeing AI preemption in NDAA, Scalise says
House Republican leaders are searching for a legislative vehicle they could attach language to that would effectively ban state regulation of artificial intelligence.
punchbowl.news
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Making US unsafe from GenAI. "House R leaders are searching for a legislative vehicle they could attach language to that would effectively ban state regulation of AI...debating is the annual defense policy bill...the National Defense Authorization Act."
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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The ChatGPT-powered teddy bear is officially on ice
Probably for the best.
mashable.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
AI and Text-based scams report via Georgetown Law. US consumers will be victims of unleashed GenAI tactics since federal regulators have been put in deep freeze. www.law.georgetown.edu/tech-institu...
Tech Brief: Text-Based Scams & AI
www.law.georgetown.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
AI and Text-based scams report via Georgetown Law. US consumers will be victims of unleashed GenAI tactics since federal regulators have been put in deep freeze. www.law.georgetown.edu/tech-institu...
Commercial surveillance marketing rapid expansion via agentic GenAI commerce tech with real-time bidding. Privacy, consumer, antitrust alarms should be ringing--worldwide. s3.amazonaws.com/media.mediap...
s3.amazonaws.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Commercial surveillance marketing rapid expansion via agentic GenAI commerce tech with real-time bidding. Privacy, consumer, antitrust alarms should be ringing--worldwide. s3.amazonaws.com/media.mediap...
Important tell MSNOW/MSNBC viewers real reasons for change, inc. new corp. ownership structure to distance from Comcast/NBCU for political/financial reasons; MSNOW & other Versant properties could be eventually sold (and there are new financial pressures to make $). Real changes.
@maddow.msnbc.com
@maddow.msnbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Important tell MSNOW/MSNBC viewers real reasons for change, inc. new corp. ownership structure to distance from Comcast/NBCU for political/financial reasons; MSNOW & other Versant properties could be eventually sold (and there are new financial pressures to make $). Real changes.
@maddow.msnbc.com
@maddow.msnbc.com
TACD warns: The European Commission’s Digital Omnibus reform could weaken major EU digital protections. Civil society groups in the United States and in Europe call on the Commission to halt these changes. bit.ly/4i9uGf2
Streamlining or deregulation? TACD sounds alarm on EU Digital Omnibus
News
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November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
TACD warns: The European Commission’s Digital Omnibus reform could weaken major EU digital protections. Civil society groups in the United States and in Europe call on the Commission to halt these changes. bit.ly/4i9uGf2
Your privacy further threatened--& this is tip of GenAI digital data iceberg. What is Trump FTC doing? "Google Accused in Suit of Using Gemini AI Tool to Snoop on Users"
bit.ly/3LJEXlO
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Google Accused in Suit of Using Gemini AI Tool to Snoop on Users
Google was accused in a lawsuit of using its Gemini AI assistant to unlawfully track the private communications of users of its Gmail, instant messaging and videoconference programs.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Your privacy further threatened--& this is tip of GenAI digital data iceberg. What is Trump FTC doing? "Google Accused in Suit of Using Gemini AI Tool to Snoop on Users"
bit.ly/3LJEXlO
bit.ly/3LJEXlO
Via Google: "our agent is built to sell. Its intelligent intent classifier understands how your customers are shopping and tailors their experience...Guide them with personalized, conversational search that inspires them to find—and buy...Drive revenue with natural conversation..."
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November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Via Google: "our agent is built to sell. Its intelligent intent classifier understands how your customers are shopping and tailors their experience...Guide them with personalized, conversational search that inspires them to find—and buy...Drive revenue with natural conversation..."
bit.ly/49RYx9v
bit.ly/49RYx9v
Call My Agentic! With a slew of consumer, financial, health, privacy Gen AI tech threats, will Congress call out the growing problems of unregulated agentic commerce? Let's see if lawmakers know what's really going on. energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
Chairmen Guthrie and Joyce Announce Oversight and Investigations Hearing on the Safety of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbots
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...
energycommerce.house.gov
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Call My Agentic! With a slew of consumer, financial, health, privacy Gen AI tech threats, will Congress call out the growing problems of unregulated agentic commerce? Let's see if lawmakers know what's really going on. energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
“They Took My Mom. Then They Took My Dad and Uncle,” Oxnard ICE Raids Through The Eyes of 16-Year-Old Boy lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
“They Took My Mom. Then They Took My Dad and Uncle,” Oxnard ICE Raids Through The Eyes of 16-Year-Old Boy ~ L.A. TACO
A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on b...
lataco.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“They Took My Mom. Then They Took My Dad and Uncle,” Oxnard ICE Raids Through The Eyes of 16-Year-Old Boy lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
One of the greatest risks with GenAI is its already core role in commercial surveillance marketing, threatening consumers, privacy, health, for ex. Growing platform & GenAI tech partnerships part of this emerging system. US regulators--#FTC--failing. Here's one recent alliance: bit.ly/47QudJQ
Snap and Perplexity Partner to Bring Conversational AI Search to Snapchat
Partnership expands AI offerings available to the Snapchat community and marks the first large-scale integration of an external AI partner directly into the app. Today Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) and Perpl...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One of the greatest risks with GenAI is its already core role in commercial surveillance marketing, threatening consumers, privacy, health, for ex. Growing platform & GenAI tech partnerships part of this emerging system. US regulators--#FTC--failing. Here's one recent alliance: bit.ly/47QudJQ