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Matt Perault

Matt Perault is the director of the Center on Technology Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a professor of the practice at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science, and a consultant on technology policy issues. He previously worked as an associate professor of the practice at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy and as a director of public policy at Facebook.
Antitrust and Competition

The Deals That Will Hamper Competition in AI Markets

Matt Perault
Matt Perault writes that there is little indication that Big Tech investments in artificial intelligence startups are harming competition. In fact, the opposite is likely true. Antitrust regulators should instead focus their attention on the real threat to AI competition: rules and regulations that will make it harder for startups that to compete with large tech companies.
Antitrust and Competition

Frances Haugen’s Leaking of the Facebook Papers Will Hurt Decision-Making at Tech Companies

Matt Perault
Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s assurances that Facebook will continue its research program, it seems almost inevitable that the company will narrow the scale and scope of the...
Antitrust and Competition

Should Facebook Pick a Side?

Matt Perault
Boycott organizers want Facebook to “pick a side” and align its corporate operations with aggressive activism on issues such as racism and social justice....

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