Big Tech, Big Problems, & Big Solutions: The Legislative Package to Reinvigorate Platform Competition
By Antoine Prince Albert III
September 15, 2021
…most-used search engine, would no longer be able to preference its own products in search results above Yelp and other competitors. Under this law, Google would be prohibited from putting…
Read MoreHow the House Antitrust Bills Preserve Platforms’ Editorial Discretion and Spur Consumer Choice
By Lisa Macpherson
August 11, 2021
…search, e-commerce, app store, and other platform markets, consumers could vote with their feet (or more accurately, their fingers) for the platforms whose content moderation policies they value. That inherently…
Read MoreWe Told You So: Small Publishers Struggle for a Seat at the Table in Negotiations With Platforms in Australia and France
By Lisa Macpherson
July 21, 2021
…links without any preview of the actual article), placing French news publications at a significant disadvantage in search results. The French competition authority intervened and ultimately ordered Google to engage…
Read MoreState AG Antitrust Suit Against Google Marks Next Step Towards Competition
July 8, 2021…including two on Google’s search dominance — one led by the Department of Justice and another by a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general — and a third on Google’s…
Read MoreCan the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act Really Preserve Local Journalism? Public Knowledge Says “Probably Not.”
By Lisa Macpherson
June 17, 2021
…News or the news results tab on Google Search. They said the indirect economic value Google gets from news in search is “also very small,” with news-related queries accounting for…
Read MoreSupreme Court Affirms FCC Authority to Revise Rules on Media Ownership Limits While Upholding Misguided Trump-Era Rules
April 1, 2021…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 United…
Read MorePublic Knowledge Competition Policy Director Charlotte Slaiman to Testify Before House Judiciary on How Interoperability Can Rein In Big Tech
February 25, 2021…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 policy choices. We chose…
Read MoreWhy We Can’t Be Friends: We Need Interoperability in Digital Markets
By Alex Petros
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
By Lisa Macpherson
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
By Harold Feld
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…
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