"One thing I find shocking across the industry broadly, is a lack of appreciation for history," Brian Wieser quipped in his "final" podcast. "I say this as someone who replaced someone at another agency who started in 1948."

"At some point over the past few decades, we, as a society, have decided, intentionally or not, to accept the process of viewing ads in exchange for consuming 'free' content on the internet," law professor Jonathan Askin tells the FTC. Remove the word "internet" and the same thing could be said of all ad-supported media over the past few centuries.

Hey, I know that headline sucks, but it's not mine. It is what ChatGPT suggested when I asked it to write one as part of the following Q&A. Keep reading if you want to know why I will be retiring if this ends up being one of our most-read columns of the year.

Seattle has become the first major school district to sue tech platforms for creating addictive algorithms that harm their student's mental health and impair their ability to learn. It won't be the last.