Tag: technology and innovation
Wednesday was a tough day for 46 state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), who had filed antitrust lawsuits against Facebook in December 2020. On Wednesday, they got their first taste of Facebook’s rebuttal in the form of motions to dismiss the cases (here and here). It’s not looking good for the government’s [...]
Content moderation on social media has been a hot-button issue ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Suffering attacks from Democrats and Republicans alike, Facebook has sought to distance itself from the issue by deferring some content-moderation decisions to an independent oversight board and embracing government involvement in content moderation. Now, Twitter is taking this uncoupling [...]
Launching a new administration involves thousands of decisions about appointments, budgets, executive orders, foreign leader contacts, legislative agendas, and the like. Planning begins long before the November election. But I suspect that President Joe Biden and his team are engrossed in at least one conversation no one had planned: What should we do about Twitter? [...]
Chairman Ajit Pai will be remembered as one of the most consequential Federal Communications Commission chairmen in history. His policy accomplishments are numerous, including the repeal of Title II regulation of the internet, rural broadband development, increased spectrum for 5G, decreasing waste in universal service funding, and better controlling robocalls. Read Dr. Jamison's complete blog [...]
Some politicians, academics, and regulatory practitioners are increasingly confident that there is something wrong with the structure of Big Tech. They are equally confident that smart regulators can remold Big Tech and make things better. They are half right. Read Dr. Jamison's complete blog post at AEI