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Dr. Lex Zard

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Online Ads Policy Policy Director @ CheckMyAds Opinions my own Georgian, European, Dr. Aleksandre Zardiashvili

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VG Newsmedia soll Medien Abgeltung von Google, Meta und Co sichern Digitalriesen entwickelten "zerstörerische Kraft": Rechtsexperte Thomas Höppner sieht "erhebliche Schwächen" in österreichischer Leistungsschutzregelung

"...für große Sprachmodelle wie ChatGPT brauche es inzwischen schon wieder zusätzliche Regeln" www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/...

22.02.2026 08:32 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Who makes these decisions? Still, I don’t think she can win the Digital Omnibus. That would mean the EU digs its own grave.

12.02.2026 11:49 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case. Here’s What’s at Stake Attorney general Raúl Torrez is accusing the tech giant of failing to protect minors on Facebook and Instagram.

"Just as the world watched courtrooms hold Big Tobacco and Big Pharma accountable, we will, for the first time, see Big Tech CEOs like Zuckerberg take the stand."

10.02.2026 14:27 👍 2161 🔁 670 💬 76 📌 40

Yes, please.

03.02.2026 21:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great that the Dutch government is taking action.

Yet, we can’t deal with surveillance capitalism by only addressing the symptoms, like addictive algorithms. We must regulate the business model: break big tech and regulate adtech.

30.01.2026 13:31 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"we're now exploring updates to our controls to let sites specifically opt out of Search generative AI features" - let's see. It would hardly be the first time Google has leveraged the CMA to obstruct genuine progress

28.01.2026 15:17 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Europe wanting to become sovereign and competitive by leading quantum tech and chips and doing nothing about online ecosystem and its monetization is a headless chicken running fast imo

#bruxconf2026 #sovereignty

28.01.2026 11:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In Brussels today? Let’s catch up.

28.01.2026 09:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Adtech is almost everything you do online. They’re using Adtech to track and investigate. Every little thing you do — shopping, browsing, checking health information, connecting on social, ChatGPT — is on Adtech.

25.01.2026 03:01 👍 201 🔁 107 💬 2 📌 4

Almost there!

26.01.2026 16:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can it become clear than this the dangers of this infrastructure? What else needs to happen?

25.01.2026 09:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Meta is *still* running thousands of ads for AI nudifiers But hey, at least some of them appear to be scams that can’t be used to undress

New on @indicator.media: I found 4,431 new ads for AI nudifiers on Meta ran since my last audit in December.

I'm losing my mind here.

21.01.2026 14:29 👍 62 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 1

They don’t need to buy them to make them irrelevant.

21.01.2026 14:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They can say that because the don’t depend on selling ads in Gemini (vs OpenAI who does). They own the entire online ecosystem, so they can use Gemini to monetize Search and YouTube, no problem. Also, they lie. They will at some point put ads in Gemini

21.01.2026 08:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This can really be a turning point if you know what I mean

21.01.2026 08:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bubble is not maintained BECAUSE of people using AI, but because of investments in the ecosystem

21.01.2026 08:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This FTC appeal is the right thing and they did it. Not sure what the judge will do though

21.01.2026 08:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not sure about the ASML, sure about the digital enforcement, that is the pin in the bubble.

19.01.2026 14:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.

That's a surprise! Just kidding - OpenAI announces it will start selling ads for the US users:

openai.com/index/our-ap...

16.01.2026 19:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A new hero

15.01.2026 11:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is also a Google AdTech case. What are the chances that EC take tougher stance than US courts, maybe a new precedent?

15.01.2026 09:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We should not

15.01.2026 07:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Open Letter Signed by Coalition of 28 Organizations Demands Apple, Google Remove Grok AI and X from App Stores - Fairplay Members of ParentsSOS, a coalition of 20 survivor families who have lost children to online harms, attended today’s hearing of the House Subcommittee on Commerce,anufacturing, and Trade on a compendiu...

"Open Letter Signed by Coalition of 28 Organizations Demands Apple, Google Remove Grok AI and X from App Stores" fairplayforkids.org/open-letter-...

15.01.2026 02:24 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Why does this make news? It’s like a common sense phrase, at least for Eastern Europeans would not you say?

14.01.2026 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Could not agree more. Great leadership from @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu

14.01.2026 12:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looks like a very timely confirmation. Enjoy!

11.01.2026 16:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NATO History NATO History

In a letter to the NYT on January 29, 1958, a NATO official wrote: "the organisation was founded to stop Communist aggression in Europe, without the resort to war...The continued Soviet insistence on the break-up of NATO is the surest measure of its success." web.archive.org/web/20160912...

11.01.2026 09:50 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

He did not have Trump in the White House yet when Brazil stopped him. He also caved in to Breton at that time. But thats's also not an excuse. Europe must act strongly.

09.01.2026 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This looks like an awesome work. Excited to read it

08.01.2026 09:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Advertising Robin. That is the probably the only model that can allow scale necessary for genuine sovereignty. Advertising done right!

08.01.2026 09:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0