Digital platforms
Taming Big Tech: What Can We Expect From Germany’s New Antitrust Tool?
Targeted at Big Tech, Germany’s new antitrust tool for dealing with large digital platforms rebalances the power between the competition watchdog and those firms.
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Giving Away Our Data for Free is a Market Failure
By convincing users to give away their data for free, digital platforms have caused a market failure. This failure benefits them and harms us,...
False News Has a Long History—But Those In Power Failed To Heed It
In his book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth, Samuel Woolley explores how governments failed to foresee...
The Great Deplatforming: Can Digital Platforms Be Trusted As Guardians of Free Speech?
Online social media platforms accepted the role of moderating content from Congress in 1996. The Great Deplatforming that occurred after January 6 was less...
Digital Platforms May Be Monopolistic Providers, But They Are Not Infrastructure
Social media platforms are not infrastructure nor natural monopolies, and they should be regulated only if they have monopolistic power and abuse it. Free...
The Digital Markets Act Represents a Change in Europe’s Approach to Digital Gatekeepers
The Digital Markets Act is not a competition tool as such. Rather, it is a market regulation whose main objective is to guarantee equal...
There Are Lots of Competition Problems on the Internet. Parler’s Takedown Is Not One of Them.
Parler’s antitrust case against Amazon is doomed, and there is no basis for Congress to impose any special duties on Amazon to deal with...
“An Offer We Can’t Refuse”: How We Gave Away Our Data and Made Big Tech What It Is Today
WhatsApp’s new terms of service should come as no surprise. For years, Big Tech has been offering its users these “take it or leave...
The “Next Frontier of Propaganda”: Micro-Influencers are Paid to Spread Political Messages, Disinformation
Online influencers aren’t in the business of promoting just products anymore. New research finds that micro-influencers are increasingly used to spread political messages and...
Digital Markets Act: Policy Choices and Conditions for Success
Last month, the European Commission introduced an ambitious new set of rules for digital platforms, the Digital Markets Act. Here is what it says,...
