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Antitrust and Competition

What Would Lina Khan’s FTC Nomination Mean For the Future of Antitrust Enforcement?

Asher Schechter
If confirmed, Khan’s nomination potentially heralds a profound shift in the way that antitrust law is enforced and discussed in the US. Editor's note: Lina...
Antitrust and Competition

Congress Is Leaning Towards a Big Tech Breakup

Hal Singer
The dominant platforms have proven themselves to be ungovernable. Behavioral remedies, especially those that require continuous oversight, might be pushed aside. The only issue...
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust at CPAC: Conservatives Debate Breaking Up Big Tech

Jana Kasperkevic
Speaking at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference, Congressmen Darrell Issa and Ken Buck discussed their stances on breaking up Big Tech, Section 230,...
Antitrust and Competition

Why Are Google and Facebook Now Okay with Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code?

Derek Wilding
A week of commercial deals and government negotiations has resulted in a series of amendments to the legislation aimed at making Google and Facebook...
Antitrust and Competition

“Free is Not Free”: What the Apple-Facebook Spat and the GameStop-Robinhood Fiasco Have in Common

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, antitrust scholar, lawyer, and businesswoman Dina Srinivasan explains why she believes that if users were given the choice to...
Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech’s Fight Over Privacy: Could Facebook Win an Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple?

Herbert Hovenkamp
Do the new iOS 14 privacy features violate antitrust laws? If Facebook brings an antitrust suit against Apple, as it is reportedly considering, there...
Antitrust and Competition

Giving Away Our Data for Free is a Market Failure

Nicholas Economides
By convincing users to give away their data for free, digital platforms have caused a market failure. This failure benefits them and harms us,...
Antitrust and Competition

False News Has a Long History—But Those In Power Failed To Heed It

Samuel Woolley
In his book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth, Samuel Woolley explores how governments failed to foresee...
Antitrust and Competition

The Great Deplatforming: Can Digital Platforms Be Trusted As Guardians of Free Speech?

Robert Sprague
Online social media platforms accepted the role of moderating content from Congress in 1996. The Great Deplatforming that occurred after January 6 was less...
Antitrust and Competition

Digital Platforms May Be Monopolistic Providers, But They Are Not Infrastructure

Carlo Amenta
Social media platforms are not infrastructure nor natural monopolies, and they should be regulated only if they have monopolistic power and abuse it. Free...
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