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The Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general have grabbed headlines over potential antitrust cases against digital platforms. But advocates calling for expanded sector-specific regulatory controls […]
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Two senior members of Congress, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), asked U.S. intelligence officials late Wednesday to determine whether the Chinese-owned social-networking app […]
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Is the crisis in American democracy the result of propagandist intervention? Yochai Benkler reflects on the origins of current disfunction, encouraging scholars to distinguish between evidence of activities and evidence of effects, and urging us to look past recent political shocks to the roots of our epistemic crisis.
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Our general elections have been “largely clean” and mostly free of mis- and disinformation. That’s according to a study published earlier this month that found no evidence of foreign activity […]
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The old order fought back. Hoover, fearing disorder, had the protesters in 1932 teargassed and their protest encampments destroyed by the Army. When the government tried to impose the law […]
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Over the weekend, Facebook likened itself to a broadcaster – inadvertently asking to be regulated. This was in the third round of an argument with Elizabeth Warren over the company’s […]
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Google filled its long-vacant top D.C. policy job Friday by hiring Mark Isakowitz, a Capitol Hill staffer and longtime Republican lobbyist whose main challenge will be helping the search giant confront its […]
