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The Information Economy

Misinformation

The Challenges of Regulating Disinformation

Federico Vaccari
In response to rising concerns about political disinformation, governments have introduced a slew of interventions. Federico Vaccari warns in new research that these interventions...
Big Tech

Can Twitter Be a Force for Good? Social Media Helps Curb Corporate Misconduct

Jonas Heese
Collective shaming on social media is crucial in reducing corporate misbehavior — and society would be significantly worse off without watchdog platforms. Social media, once...
Commentary

What Are The Media For?

Surya Gowda
In response to ProMarket's debate about the Twitter Files and the roles of social media and traditional media, Surya Gowda argues that a more...
Big Tech

The Wicked Problem Embodied by The Twitter Files

Tom Ginsburg
In response to a recent ProMarket post about the Twitter Files, professor Tom Ginsburg points out that the toughest question lies in the meaning...
Media

Kyiv Independent Editor-in-Chief: “Leaving Ukraine is the Last Thing I Would Want To Do”

Brooke Fox
The editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent speaks with FT journalist Edward Luce in an exclusive video interview covering the challenges of her position, the...
Media

Chart of the Week: Most News in Russia is Government-Owned or Influenced

Brooke Fox
Of 3.9 million Russian news articles studied, 77 percent were from either a government-owned or government-influenced outlet. In a study which collected 3.9 million...
Antitrust and Competition

How Big Media Handed Digital Advertising to Big Tech

Oles Andriychuk
The current structure of digital advertising markets makes the Google-Facebook duopoly an unavoidable trading partner for every party in the content consumption supply chain,...
Media

Announcing the Participants in the Spring 2022 Stigler Center Journalists in Residence Program

ProMarket writers
Next month, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from Nigeria, Brazil, Chile, Italy, India, Canada, and the United States for an intensive...
Antitrust and Competition

The Best Political Economy Books of 2021

Asher Schechter
A scholarly examination of market’s power toll on American workers, the collected works of a pioneering economic thinker, an ambitious narrative of US economic...
Media

The Present and Future of Journalism: How the News Media Lost Its Purpose

Martin Gurri
At a time of information overabundance, journalism has lost its purpose. Newspapers, traditionally the keepers of journalistic flame, are going away. What does the...
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