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The U.S. Department of Justice has formally requested the sale of the Chrome browser among other measures following last August’s guilty verdict in its search advertising antitrust suit (not to be confused with last week’s guilty verdict in the adtech antitrust lawsuit). Google is asking for a much narrower focus on deals to be the default search engine for Apple, Mozilla and others. There will be a three-week hearing on the government’s proposals.

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We learned last week that most links in AI Overviews go to Google rather than external websites. Here’s more bad news for publishers: when AI Overviews appear alongside Google Search results, search click-throughs are cut by 34.5% (on average, for the top ranking page). This from an analysis of 300,000 keywords by Ahrefs.

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At 2% of digital ad spend, influencer marketing may seem like a quirky little footnote. But it’s already worth more than newspapers, magazines, or traditional out-of-home, closing in on terrestrial radio, and growing fast. This PartnerCentric study helps to explain why: almost 50% of purchases on TikTok Shop came from influencer posts, while 63% of consumers say they take advice from influencers. Overall, 37% of American consumers under 60 have made at least one purchase on TikTok Shop.

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The Roblox game platform raised major alarms previously about kid safety and, while it has new tools to give parents more control over kids’ accounts, Researching Reality agency’s research revealed there are still serious loopholes exposing kids to adult predators.

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Total recall! If you ever discussed it, now ChatGPT can draw upon it, tailor its responses and, after factoring in interests you have, can personalize just for you. In the past you could just tell it some things to remember, but now anything goes. And for those for whom privacy’s not much of a thing and don’t worry about breaches etc., this feature and similar ones expected from Apple, Google, Microsoft and other major players will offer hyper-personal assistants.

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No go for Ohio’s Social Media Parental Notification Act, which had passed but just was struck down by a federal judge thanks to lawsuit brought by trade group NetChoice, the company that blocked similar laws in California, Arkansas, and Utah. So, Ohioans are safe from protecting children from social media – and business there can thrive even more.

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The game-centric social media platform has been sued by the state attorney general for alleged violation of state consumer fraud laws. Specifically, the state claimed Discord obscured risks children faced on the platform and was ambiguous about its safety settings.

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The ”traveling cookies” argument against Shopify attracted bipartisan support from a group of 30 states plus Washington, D.C., and, if successful, this has the potential to reset the bar for similar lawsuits to be brought against global companies.

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While most U.S. courts have blocked age verification laws aimed at limiting minors’ access to social media, the U.S. Fifth Circuit vacated a lower court’s injunction on the Mississippi version, citing the lower court’s failure to provide a detailed factual analysis as required by a recent Supreme Court ruling. Apparently the Fifth Circuit believes there’s no urgency to protecting First Amendment rights.

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Did you think you wouldn’t be personally harmed by the Trump administration? If you or your clients have anything to do with marketing, think again. Media strategy platform Guideline reports that U.S. advance ad sales for April/May showed the weakest growth since the last “ad recession.”

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Here’s an additional bullet to dodge if you’re a content creator: Xfunnel reports that blogs and PR messages are the least-linked content types in AI search results, at 3-6% and around 2% respectively. Product content is by the leader at 46% to 70%. So even if AI doesn’t replace you, it will reduce demand for your output.

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Or maybe you’re an analyst or service agent who figures AI can’t do your job because so much involves “swivel chair integration” between disconnected systems? Sorry, mate: Microsoft has begun rolling out Copilot Vision, which can interact with any browser or app window on your screen. It has also introduced a feature in Copilot Studio for businesses to build AI agents to interact with browsers and apps.

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