What Would Lina Khan’s FTC Nomination Mean For the Future of Antitrust Enforcement?
If confirmed, Khan’s nomination potentially heralds a profound shift in the way that antitrust law is enforced and discussed in the US.
Editor's note: Lina...
Congress Is Leaning Towards a Big Tech Breakup
The dominant platforms have proven themselves to be ungovernable. Behavioral remedies, especially those that require continuous oversight, might be pushed aside. The only issue...
Antitrust at CPAC: Conservatives Debate Breaking Up Big Tech
Speaking at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference, Congressmen Darrell Issa and Ken Buck discussed their stances on breaking up Big Tech, Section 230,...
Why Are Google and Facebook Now Okay with Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code?
A week of commercial deals and government negotiations has resulted in a series of amendments to the legislation aimed at making Google and Facebook...
“Free is Not Free”: What the Apple-Facebook Spat and the GameStop-Robinhood Fiasco Have in Common
In an interview with ProMarket, antitrust scholar, lawyer, and businesswoman Dina Srinivasan explains why she believes that if users were given the choice to...
Big Tech’s Fight Over Privacy: Could Facebook Win an Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple?
Do the new iOS 14 privacy features violate antitrust laws? If Facebook brings an antitrust suit against Apple, as it is reportedly considering, there...
Reviewing Facebook’s Mergers Could Have Negative Ripple Effects
How the pre-merger notification regime came about and why we should be careful about discouraging useful mergers.
December 2020 was an extraordinary period in US...
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,...
The Antitrust Cases Against Facebook And Google: In Search of a Smoking Gun
In the Microsoft antitrust case, Bill Gates’ emails were perhaps the government’s most compelling evidence. Now, as regulators pursue antitrust cases against Facebook and Google,...
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...
