…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…

…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…

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Why We Can’t Be Friends: We Need Interoperability in Digital Markets

By Alex Petros February 23, 2021 interoperability, Platform Competition, Platform Regulation

…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…

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How an Internet Superfund Could Clean Up Vaccine Disinformation That Threatens Our COVID-19 Recovery

By Lisa Macpherson February 12, 2021 Communications & Pandemic Series, Communications and the Pandemic, Congress, Content Moderation, Disinformation, Fact-Checking, Internet Superfund, misinformation, Platform Regulation, Superfund for the Internet

…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…

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America Needs a Public Interest Approach To Solving Big Tech Harms To News

By Harold Feld February 9, 2021 Big Tech, EU, Facebook, Future of Journalism, Google, Internet Superfund, Link Tax, Local News, Platform Regulation, TV Blackouts

…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…

…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…

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What Makes a Common Carrier, and What Doesn’t

By John Bergmayer January 14, 2021 Platform Competition, Platform Regulation

…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…

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A Superfund for the Internet Could Clean Up Our Polluted Information Ecosystem

By Lisa Macpherson December 23, 2020 Content Moderation, Disinformation, First Amendment, Free Expression, misinformation, Platform Competition, Platform Regulation, Section 230, Superfund, Superfund for the Internet

…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…

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While You’re Waiting, Can I Offer You Some European Regulation?

By Alex Petros 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…

…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…