Digital platforms
The FTC’s Antitrust Case Against Facebook: Injunction, Divestiture, or Breakup?
While the FTC’s lawsuit against
Facebook is unlikely to lead to a “breakup,” it could force Facebook to undo
some mergers. Breaking things up is easy,...
Why Both Liberals and Conservatives Are Completely Wrong About Section 230
Abolishing Section 230 would not address disinformation and propaganda on social media nor charges of anti-conservative censorship. But its repeal would probably hurt startups...
Facebook Could Be Heading Towards a Breakup
Assuming Facebook’s acquisitions can be shown to have eliminated emerging rivals, reversing those acquisitions via divestiture—“the most important of antitrust remedies”—is the logical place...
Essential Platform Monopolies: Open Up, Then Undo
Digital platforms have become “economic toll
bridges.” By treating them as essential facilities, we could help strengthen
healthy competition online. It is high time to revive,...
“A Loaded Weapon”: Francis Fukuyama on the Political Power of Digital Platforms
In an interview with ProMarket, Francis Fukuyama discusses the political threat posed by digital platforms and why he believes a “middleware” solution would be...
What Should the Biden Administration’s Antitrust Agenda Look Like? A Roundtable
How will US antitrust policy look under President Joe Biden? We caught up with four antitrust experts—Jonathan Baker, Zephyr Teachout, William Kovacic, and Teddy...
The Useful Distraction of Section 230
How the red-herring of a politicized Section 230 and “conservative censorship” distracts from a bipartisan national privacy act.
Remember Cambridge Analytica? A lot has happened...
Kicking Around Section 230: Don’t Confuse Politics and Policymaking
Congressional hearings may make for good TV and viral social media posts, but reforming Section 230 would be more difficult than it seems.
“Change...
Big Tech Platforms and Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction
Schumpeter’s indirect entry theory fits the average tendencies of competition in digital industries. When the model is added to standard assumptions and suspicions, a...
What Is Next for Section 230 Reform?
Section 230 has faced scrutiny from President Donald Trump, the FCC, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the US Congress, and even President-elect Joe Biden,...
