Digital platforms
Facebook’s Responses to Criticism Sound Too Good to Be True
The Facebook Papers show how Facebook’s relentlessly positive and defiant PR messaging is not plausible anymore. Hence, a rebrand.
It sounds too good to be...
The European Union’s Big Policy Bet Against the Tech Giants
If EU policymakers are truly concerned about restoring competitiveness to digital markets, they need to adjust their expectations when it comes to data access...
Tech Platforms and the Antitrust Duty to Deal
Why is there a widespread view that existing American antitrust law is ill-equipped to address dominant platforms that exclude or discriminate against rivals? How...
Is there a “California Effect” in Data Privacy Law? Why the EU is Not the World’s Privacy Cop
It is common lore in data privacy law and other fields that stringent regulatory standards (such as the ones introduced in the EU’s GDPR)...
The Roots of America’s Competition Revolution
Proponents of the current transformation in America’s competition policy managed to shape legislative reform proposals, push public antitrust agencies to boost enforcement, and successfully pressure the...
A New Browser Extension Aims to Bring Transparency to Big Tech Funding
As Congress prepares to debate a series of new antitrust bills, the Big Tech Funding browser extension encourages lawmakers to be mindful of Big...
Big Tech’s Tightening Grip On Internet Speech
Social media platforms have so transformed American life that many now view online speech as a right of citizenship—a right to be protected against...
The New Challenges of Assessing Big Tech’s Impact
Big Tech firms are facing the biggest wave of antitrust legislation in their history. Academic literature reveals the complexity of possible consequences of the...
Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table
Antitrust enforcers have tended to stay narrowly “in their lane,” failing to engage with how data is collected and used by digital giants and...
In FTC vs. Facebook, the Government Lost the First Round. It Could Still Win the Fight.
Despite some compelling allegations, a federal judge dismissed the FTC's antitrust complaint against Facebook due to the agency’s failure to explain how it calculated...
