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Slap on your Ray-Ban smart glasses, ask Meta AI to remind you to post on Threads and then hop into Horizon Worlds. Welcome to the near future, according to Meta.

Under the guise of preventing “censorship,” Jim Jordan and the FCC’s Brendan Carr are attacking the First Amendment rights of private companies to choose what kinds of political content they support.

Would the internet be a better place if it weren’t run by billionaires? Plus, more brands are cutting out the ad tech middlemen.

Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem … 

Threads will introduce ads to capitalize on users fleeing X; Perplexity tests ads and sponsored queries; and Amazon pulls the plug on Freevee.

Meta’s capex in 2024 will clock in somewhere between $38 billion and $40 billion, roughly $1 billion more than previously anticipated. Where’s most of that money going? AI, of course.

Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem … 

While CTV has emerged as a powerful and unique advertising medium, venue-based DOOH streaming is distinct and requires its own marketplace to fully realize its potential.

In today’s newsletter: Google paid $445 million in rebates in 2018; publishers across the ideological spectrum blame brand safety for hurting the media biz; and Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to Congressional Republicans for Meta’s content moderation.

Meta’s stock jumped by nearly 7% in after-hours trading on Wednesday based on strong results, including $39.1 billion in total Q2 revenue.