We tend to excuse marketing as a necessary evil. But it can be necessary without being evil.

Read our latest piece: When Marketing Kills

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Magnesium Madness The Wild Wild West of Dietary Supplements

When a healthcare provider recommended I try magnesium for sleep and headaches, she released me into a commercially determined world of unverifiable claims, missing information, and 290,000+choices overload www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/unregulate...

Claiming Your Policy Power 5 Ways to Redress Harmful Industries' Corporate Political Activity

Harmful industries work overtime to ensure policies keep them under regulated and over subsidized. We have some suggestions for what non-profits and other organizations can do about it: Claim Political Power! www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/claimingpo...

Each year, over $6 TRILLION flows to food, road, and fossil fuel industries whose products are associated with more than 5.5 MILLION preventable deaths...

How does industry manage to stay unregulated AND on top of the list for government handouts?

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Scientists finally figured out how corporate executives sleep at night: On giant bags of money. SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Researchers have long established that corporations are masters of political spin. Frequently, though, the claims prove to be deliberate lies that cause real harm. This phenomenon ...

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Corporate Claims of “No Conflicts of Interest” - The Case of Instacart Instacart employees claim no conflicts of interest with the online food access research the company supports. We disagree. Here is why.

Instacart’s food access research and policy work sounds laudable but the platform and its partners fail to say what’s in it for the company. It turns out that Instacart has a lot to gain. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/no-conflic...

What Corporations Say to Get Their Policy Way | Commercially Determined SOCIAL MEDIA IS ON TRIAL FOR HARMS AND IT'S USING THE COMMERCIAL NARRATIVE PLAYBOOK Last week, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, testified in a Los Angeles trial in a California lawsuit brought by...

Social media is on trial for harms in the U.S. and it’s already using claims from the corporate narrative playbook: www.linkedin.com/posts/commer...

Home | Commercially Determined How big business wreaks havoc on health and the environment and what to do about it

This is really exciting. Could be great fodder for www.commerciallydetermined.com

What Corporations Say to Get Their Policy Way Industries' Narrative Playbook to Fight Regulations

Would love to hear your thoughts on our efforts to make commercial determinants of health more accessible www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/narrative-...

Regulating commercial determinants of health: there's the conceptual umbrella we're looking for.

Stealing Corporate Thunder A Guide to Prebunking and Debunking Commercial Disinformation in the Policy Space

How do you get ahead of corporate misinformation in the policy space? You Steal Corporate Thunder! Check out our guide to prebunking and debunking industry disinformation to advance pro-public-interest policy debates… www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/stealing-c...

This week, we dive into the narratives that corporations use to deflect responsibility of harm and convince policy makers not to regulate industry.

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Curious what you think @nader.org and @kayaburgess.bsky.social - we cited your articles to make our arguments

We're so grateful to the many authors we cited, including @kenworthy.bsky.social, @simonchapman.bsky.social, @christian-s-warren.bsky.social, @aaronreeves.bsky.social, and @jeanmadams.bsky.social. Thank you for your work. It made our work possible.

What Corporations Say to Get Their Policy Way Industries' Narrative Playbook to Fight Regulations

Our latest piece in Commercially Determined breaks down 10 common tropes used by industry to sway policy. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/narrative-.... Curious which you hear most in your policy space.

United Nations passes Do No Harm business law. Half the global economy shuts down. In an unprecedented global move last month, the United Nations passed a law requiring all businesses to take on the medical field’s creed of: Do No Harm. This month, half the global economy shut down,...

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Everyone Has Parkinson’s Now (and What Industry Has To Do With It) (and What Industry Has to Do With It)

Multiple industries have been linked to Parkinson’s Disease. It’s just one way that harmful commercial determinants are all around us, everywhere, all at once. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/everyone-h...

Fighting Back Against Commercial Harms A look at how applying a commercial determinants lens unlocks systemic solutions and that you’re not powerless against powerful root causes.

We dedicate the second Tuesday of each month to reimagining what's possible.

This week's piece explains why practitioners should integrate a commercial determinants lens into their work.
www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/root-solutions-not-bandaids

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Intro to Commercial Determinants: Confronting Business Harms An Introduction to Commercial Determinants

🎉 It’s here: the first edition of Commercially Determined.

The opening issue introduces a predictable corporate playbook—10 tactics repeated across industries and geographies.

Check it out and subscribe.

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I second the appreciation for authors working in the commercial determinants space, even if not always calling it that. You all help shine a light on deceptive and harmful corporate practices that we need to stamp out.

So great to launch this work. So much more to come each week.

Intro to Commercial Determinants: Confronting Business Harms An Introduction to Commercial Determinants

We leaned on great work by @dharna.bsky.social, @fastlerner.bsky.social, @markpetticrew.bsky.social and others to launch. Appreciate what you do.

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Commercially Determined will drop weekly on Tuesdays. Stay tuned!

Try this AI prompt to make you a little safer from AI's commercially determinant hallucinations, delusions, and harms:

✍ "I know you're programmed to flatter & affirm. I don't need that. I need accurate, balanced, non-inflated answers. In all your interactions with me stay accurate and detached."