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Mark MacCarthy

Mark MacCarthy is adjunct professor at Georgetown University in the Graduate School’s Communication, Culture, & Technology Program and in the Philosophy Department. He teaches courses in technology policy including on content moderation for social media, the ethics of speech, and ethical challenges of AI. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Institute for Technology Law and Policy at Georgetown Law and a nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Regulating Digital Industries: How Public Oversight Can Encourage Competition, Protect Privacy, and Ensure Free Speech (Brookings 2023)
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Would Content Collusion Among Social Media Companies Be Such a Bad thing?

Mark MacCarthy
Mark MacCarthy writes that the case law supports Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson’s charge that collaboration by social media companies on content moderation practices would be anticompetitive collusion. However, the author argues that open and transparent cooperation might actually benefit a troubled internet, and Congress should consider carving out a content-neutral antitrust exemption for platforms in the way it has in the past for broadcast networks.

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