Disputes about gambling businesses, betting products and the rules governing them.
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EFF and Senator Richard Blumenthal call DraftKings' alleged AI promotion targeting exploitative. The company denies targeting customers based on losses or gambling-risk indicators. Massachusetts regulators are reviewing operators' AI use.
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Role at the time: InGame columnist
Statement summary
Jeff Edelstein argues that DraftKings should not be held to a higher moral standard than other businesses marketing potentially harmful products.
“but I don’t see why this behavior is uniquely scandalous.”
What this label refers to
Reference point: DraftKings' alleged use of AI-targeted promotions to exploit vulnerable gamblers. He excuses the reported practice through a substantive ordinary-business and equal-standards argument. Discomfort is retained as context, not a materially conditional conclusion. This is more than merely disputing a headline.
Diana DiZoglio is the Massachusetts state auditor and a former state legislator. Her office audits state agencies, departments and vendors to examine public spending and compliance.
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Jason Robins is a co-founder, chief executive officer and board chairman of DraftKings, the Boston-based sports and gaming company launched in 2012.
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Jon Schweppe is a conservative policy advocate and founder of Populist Solutions. He has worked at the Federal Trade Commission and the American Principles Project.
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Pamela Mishkin is an artificial-intelligence researcher who has worked at OpenAI. Her research includes the economic effects and safety of language models.
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Marc Levine is a former California State Assembly member who represented Marin and Sonoma counties from 2012 to 2022. He previously served on the San Rafael City Council.
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United States Senator (Democratic) from Connecticut.
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Jeff Edelstein is an American journalist and columnist who covers gambling for InGame. He has also written for The Trentonian and publishes personal essays on Substack.
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Melanie D'Arrigo is a New York health-care advocate and former congressional candidate. She is executive director of the Campaign for New York Health.
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Peg O'Connor is a philosophy professor at Gustavus Adolphus College and an author who writes about ethics, addiction and recovery.
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Christo Aivalis is a Canadian historian and political commentator who writes about Canadian politics and labour. He holds a doctorate in Canadian history from Queen's University.
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David Moscrop is a Canadian author, political commentator and podcast host. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of British Columbia.
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