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Capitol Forum: Thrad: Company Claims to Serve Ads to Millions of Chatbot Users as Hims & Hers Denies Partnership, Experts Raise Privacy Concerns 

March 12, 2026

“There’s something to me about the just really nefarious nature of advertisements in chatbots, when people are using them and they feel a sense of trust,” Sara Geoghegan, Senior Counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), said. “It’s especially nefarious that under that guise, you’re even more susceptible to buying a product for more money or a product you don’t need at all.”

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