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Bethany McLean's Weekend Reading List: Cheap Credit, WeWork, and Fracking

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean    I'm always interested in stories about what...
Antitrust and Competition

Vertical Media Mergers Are a Serious Threat to Freedom of Speech

Daniel R. Shulman
Antitrust regulators should stop mergers where a firm owning the means of transmission acquires a provider of content. The people that own the pipes...
Antitrust and Competition

If Journalists Want to Save Journalism, They Should Stop Asking Google for Money

Stefano Feltri
A new report claims Google has been using its Google News Initiative to stage a “media takeover” and reveals the increasing influence of the...
Antitrust and Competition

The Good News: Fewer Americans Were Exposed to Fake News in 2018. The Bad News: This Probably Won’t Last

Eytan Avriel
As it turns out, a majority of the American public is not bad at identifying disinformation. But as the 2020 election nears, the online...
Academic Capture

Presenting: The Stigler Center’s Report on How to Rein in Big Tech

ProMarket writers
The Stigler Center presents its policy suggestions on how to address the political and economic issues raised by the market power of tech platforms...
Antitrust and Competition

“The World Has Changed”: the New York Times on Luigi Zingales, the “Chicago School,” and the Threat of Tech Monopolies

ProMarket writers
A New York Times profile summarizes the work done by Luigi Zingales and the Stigler Center on regulating digital platforms and describes it as...
Antitrust and Competition

The Hidden Risk in Bernie Sanders's Plan to Save Journalism: an Unholy Alliance Between Publishers and Tech Monopolists

Guy Rolnik
Sanders's plan is important and laudable, but his proposal to use a tax on targeted advertising to fund journalism is dangerous.        Donald Trump is not the...
Antitrust and Competition

What Bernie Sanders’s Plan to Save American Journalism Gets Right – and What It Misses

Andrea Prat
Independent and effective news reporting is at the heart of the democratic process. The dangers to media plurality and local journalism that Sanders identifies...
Antitrust and Competition

We Need to Deal With WhatsApp's Misinformation Problem

Prateek Raj
A peculiar feature of WhatsApp groups has made the spread of misinformation much easier. We need better design guidelines for platforms like WhatsApp, ones...
Antitrust and Competition

How the Adtech Market Incentivizes Profit-Driven Disinformation

Joshua Braun
If we want to solve the disinformation crisis, we need to fix the perverse incentives created by the online advertising market through structural and...
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