BI-WEEKLY MEDIA BRIEF
May 30, 2025

Social Media: Texas is on the cusp of enacting one of the nation’s most stringent social media regulations, with House Bill 186 (also referred to as HB 18) set to prohibit individuals under the age of 18 from creating and maintaining accounts on platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and Snapchat.
Source: NBC News

OTT:  Netflix has announced it will roll out AI-generated advertising — including the dreaded pause ads — in the middle of its programming on the ad-supported tier. Ad-supported tier subscribers watch an average of 41 hours of Netflix per month, which equates to roughly three hours of ads per month for those viewers.
Source: IGN

Print: Both the Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer recently published a list of books recommended as ‘summer reads’, ten of which were entirely made up by AI. The section was syndicated by King Features, a Hearst Media service that provides content to news organizations.
Source: The Times

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