{"id":24,"date":"2026-05-11T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.keybrains.io\/?p=24"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:00:00","slug":"senate-committee-launches-investigation-into-algorithmic-political-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.keybrains.io\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Senate Committee Launches Investigation Into Algorithmic Political Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan Senate committee has launched a wide-ranging investigation into the use of artificial intelligence in political advertising, focusing on micro-targeting using psychological profiling derived from social media data.<\/p>\n<p>Among the practices under scrutiny are synthetic media for political content, large language models for personalised voter outreach, and emotional vulnerability profiling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question is not whether these tools are being used,&#8221; said the committee chair. &#8220;We know they are. The question is whether their use is compatible with the kind of informed deliberation that democracy requires.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan inquiry will examine how AI-generated micro-targeted political ads may be undermining democratic participation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,23,30],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-advertising","tag-ai","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.keybrains.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.keybrains.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.keybrains.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.keybrains.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.keybrains.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.keybrains.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.keybrains.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.keybrains.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.keybrains.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.keybrains.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}