Highly restrictive legislation on minors’ use of social media has passed both houses of the Florida legislature and will now go to Governor Ron DeSantis. The ban covers any sites that, among other things, track user activity and allow children to upload content and interact with each other, regardless of parental approval. Similar laws have been blocked in the courts on First Amendment grounds, most recently in Ohio.

Ad Fontes Media, a company that rates news sites for reliability and bias, has announced the integration of its rating data with The Trade Desk’s programmatic advertising platform. This will allow the screening out of highly partisan, AI-generated and clickbait sites, preferentially serving ads to sites containing quality journalism. Directing ad spend to low quality sites not only wastes dollars and threatens brand safety but de-monetizes quality news operations.

It’s deal-making time for generative AI model builders and publishers who can provide them with quality data.  Germany publishing giant Axel Springer is trading access to its data for Microsoft adtech, AI, and Azure hosting solutions.  Meanwhile, The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to license its content with attribution of summaries and quotes.