Supreme Court Affirms FCC Authority to Revise Rules on Media Ownership Limits While Upholding Misguided Trump-Era Rules
April 1, 2021…of social media and search giants. Thanks to deregulatory decisions by the Trump Administration, local newspapers and local broadcast stations can now be jointly owned in every market in the…
Read MorePublic Knowledge Competition Policy Director Charlotte Slaiman to Testify Before House Judiciary on How Interoperability Can Rein In Big Tech
February 25, 2021…paying close attention. The world we live in today, where a single company can dominate search, shopping, or social networking, is not inevitable. It is, instead, the result of our…
Read MoreWhy We Can’t Be Friends: We Need Interoperability in Digital Markets
February 23, 2021
…goes up the more people use it. Google Search is able to further refine its search engine with each additional search, and the utility of Facebook to a user goes…
Read MoreHow an Internet Superfund Could Clean Up Vaccine Disinformation That Threatens Our COVID-19 Recovery
February 12, 2021
…posts with erroneous claims about all vaccines from across its platform, change its search tools to promote authoritative results on vaccine-related information, and make it harder to locate accounts that…
Read MoreAmerica Needs a Public Interest Approach To Solving Big Tech Harms To News
February 9, 2021
…significant disadvantage in search results, since people gauge whether a search result is responsive to their request by reading the extract or thumbnail that appears with the link. Bare links…
Read More…content moderation policies. Does fact-checking work? Research has consistently shown that flagging of false news helps efforts to combat sharing of deceiving information on social media. A recent study described…
Read MoreWhat Makes a Common Carrier, and What Doesn’t
January 14, 2021
…and over-inclusive. Thus the fundamental question to ask is simply whether some form of must carry or common carriage rule would lead to good results for social networks, or app…
Read MoreA Superfund for the Internet Could Clean Up Our Polluted Information Ecosystem
December 23, 2020
…a means of serving the public interest. An Evidence-Based Approach to Content Moderation Our proposal is based on research into what actually works, in practice, to counter misinformation. One concept…
Read MoreWhile You’re Waiting, Can I Offer You Some European Regulation?
December 23, 2020
…a coalition of U.S. state attorneys general filed suit over Google’s market power in online advertising technology. Thursday saw another complaint, this one about Google in the search market, from…
Read MorePublic Knowledge Applauds State Attorneys General Bipartisan Suit Against Google
December 17, 2020…dominance in the search market. Public Knowledge has advocated for scrutiny of Google’s anticompetitive conduct in both search and advertising technology. The suit follows three years of Public Knowledge advocacy…
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