Welcome back to New World next week.

I'm James Corbett at Corporate Report.com.

And I'm James Evan Polato of MediaMonarchy.com. We've had an increase in children

biting one another, throwing things, running off, spitting.

We've got that, sadly predictable story of the scammedemic plus polio-vaccines, Zio Terra Edition.

But first, in leaks.

Facebook partner brags about listening to your phone's microphone to serve ads for stuff you mention. I love

stuff you mention in the headline. In a pitch deck to prospective customers, one of Facebook's

alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to user's smartphones, microphones, and

advertises to them accordingly. The conspiracy you always knew was happening in your phone is, of course,

now proven real. As 404 media reports based on documents leak to its reporters, the TV and

radio news giant Cox Media Group, COX, claims that its so-called active listening software uses

artificial intelligence to capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations.

Advertisers compare this voice data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers.

The deck continues. In the same slideshow, Cox counted Facebook, Google, and Amazon as clients,

though it didn't specify whether or not they were involved in the

active listening service. After 4-04 reached out to Google about its partnership, the tech giant

removed the media group from its site of Partners Program. A meta spokesperson also pushed back

in a statement saying that Cox was a general partner, not a partner in the program advertised in the deck.

Meta does not use your phones, microphones for ads, and we've been public about this for years,

the statement read. We are reaching out to CMG to get them to clarify that their program is not based on meta data.

And an Amazon spokesperson told 404 that its ads arm has never worked for CMG on this program

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