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As brands use more customer data to power personalization and AI, broken permissions create experiences that feel repetitive, intrusive, and downright creepy. This article explores the “consent gap”—the distance between what customers believe they have allowed and what a company actually activates—and what marketing leaders must do to close it.

In this episode of Signal & Noise, Vanessa Otero, Founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media and creator of the Media Bias Chart, joins Rio Longacre and Brett House to explore trust, misinformation, media fragmentation, and the future of journalism. The conversation examines social media algorithms, AI-generated content, local news decline, brand safety, CTV advertising, and whether objective journalism can survive in today’s polarized information ecosystem.