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And what about influencer marketing?
And I think it goes even younger than college students, right?
Wasn't there some influencer in your story who was offered a gig who was 15?
Interesting timing for your story because a couple of bellwether social media trials where Meta and YouTube were found liable for harm caused to teenage users.
And of course, what was most damning, I think, was the discovery in the internal communications of the executives there.
You know, it's almost like in real time, just we're seeing a new form of social interaction explicitly targeted towards minors or at least under 21s, which has presumably enormous potential to cause harm, taking off at exactly the same time that these bellwether trials are happening on the social media age.
I mean, it's interesting and kind of chilling irony.
Yeah, I mean, of course, the other thing which is worth acknowledging is that campuses are not just for partying and boozing, right?
They're also places where like the marketplace of ideas and debate and the idea of being right is like particularly important.
There is a clearly like intellectual appeal, which I can imagine for like certain college students is very different from betting.
Is there any pushback from universities, from parents, from student groups?
I mean, is there a resistance brewing or is it just so emergent that the kind of the response has not yet been marshaled?
Efforts of regulation have begun.
but they're quite narrow.
Focused largely on sports betting and a little bit on government insider trading.
Over a dozen prediction market bills.
And some are bipartisan, right?
Can you take them one by one?
I mean, let's start actually with the sports betting and then go on to the government insider trading.
In the sports betting, why do regulators and congresspeople and senators care particularly about sports betting?