Advertisement exploits common psychological triggers to achieve a non-consensual outcome at the expense of the consumer being manipulated. There's a balance ye

Advertisement exploits common psychological triggers to achieve a non-consensual outcome at the expense of the consumer being manipulated. There's a balance yet to be found between freedom of commercial speech and the imposition of reasonable limits on deliberately manipulative content. Influence ratings displaying the percentage of difference in various metrics between a standardized "just the facts" product description (think nutrition label) and the refined ad might be useful and reasonable. Ad metrics and platforms should be required to publish a catalog of their customers, copies of ads, history of demographic targets, party, pac, and funding and so forth. If metrics are useful to sellers, they'll be useful to buyers, and we can legislate transparency and regulation.