The Humbling of Mark Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony this week illustrated just how much Facebook's top brass still underestimate the public anger against the company. Congress, however, is still...
The Good News: Fewer Americans Were Exposed to Fake News in 2018. The Bad News: This Probably Won’t Last
As it turns out, a majority of the American public is not bad at identifying disinformation. But as the 2020 election nears, the online...
“The Digital Robber Barons Kill Innovation”: the Stigler Center's Report Enters the Senate
In a letter submitted to the record by the US Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust currently investigating Big Tech, Luigi Zingales expounds on the Stigler...
Presenting: The Stigler Center’s Report on How to Rein in Big Tech
The Stigler Center presents its policy suggestions on how to address the political and economic issues raised by the market power of tech platforms...
The Cost of America’s Oligopoly Problem
An innovative new study finds substantial, increasing deadweight losses resulting from oligopolistic behavior and points to the important role that startup acquisitions—particularly by large...
How Robert Bork Fathered the New Gilded Age
Much like in the first Gilded Age, antitrust enforcers today are hitting labor, not capital. This is thanks to Robert Bork’s radical and influential...
What Bernie Sanders’s Plan to Save American Journalism Gets Right – and What It Misses
Independent and effective news reporting is at the heart of the democratic process. The dangers to media plurality and local journalism that Sanders identifies...
How Reforming Antitrust Can Restore a Competitive Economy
For decades, competition in America has been on the wane, leading to slower economic growth and a gaping chasm of inequality. Antitrust can help...
Why Antimonopoly Awoke From Its Slumber, Part 1: The Clinton Era’s Failed Utopia
In the first part of a three-part series, Matt Stoller explains why antimonopoly politics is experiencing a resurgence.
There are two basic components to...
We Need to Deal With WhatsApp's Misinformation Problem
A peculiar feature of WhatsApp groups has made the spread of misinformation much easier. We need better design guidelines for platforms like WhatsApp, ones...
