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10. Alissa Cooper and Zander Arnao: Concentration in Social Media Undermines Product Design Quality and User Experience
Alissa Cooper and Zander Arnao argue that a lack of competition in social media has allowed dominant platforms to design algorithms to maximize for user engagement without concern for user experience, which may produce feelings of negativity and partisanship among users. The authors further contend that there exist alternative algorithmic designs that optimize for both engagement and user experience, and regulation may be necessary to promote these different approaches.
9. Andy Shi: OpenAI Abandons Move to For-Profit Status After Backlash. Now What?
After backlash, OpenAI has abandoned plans to restructure to remove control by its nonprofit entity. ProMarket reviews the history of OpenAI’s internal tensions to pursue profits over its founding purpose, artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity, and what questions remain after the firm’s retreat.
8. Herbert Hovenkamp: What Do the Epic Games’ Lawsuits Against Apple and Google Say About the DOJ’s Apple Case?
Herbert Hovenkamp reviews Epic Games’ lawsuits against Apple and Google for restraining users’ ability to access Epic’s offerings through third-party app stores. A comparison of the two ecosystems sheds light on what remedies would improve benefits to consumers and how the Department of Justice’s own lawsuit against Apple may fare.
7. Luigi Zingales: Teaching Bezos a Lesson in Free Markets
Luigi Zingales invites guest contributors to the Washington Post’s op-ed pages to boycott the opinion section in response to the recent decision by the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, to restrict certain ideas from the publication.
6. Steven Salop: Did the Mouse Outfox the Fox? The Fubo Settlement, Disney, and the Death of the Venu Sports-Streaming Venture
Reviewing the literature pioneered by Richard Gilbert and David Newbery, Steven Salop finds that the recent settlement between sports-streaming services Fubo and the Venu Sports joint venture of Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery was fully predictable. But the settlement takes on greater complexity in light of the termination of joint venture a week later and the new Disney/Fubu combination.
5. Lawrence A. Cunningham: What Is the Furor Behind Delaware SB 21?
Lawrence A. Cunningham reviews the arguments over Delaware’s recently signed Senate Bill 21, which changes the balance of power in corporate governance law, and discusses what developments may come next.
4. Diana L. Moss: Massachusetts Lawmakers Just Made It Harder for Trustbusters To Break Up the Live-Nation Ticketmaster Monopoly
Diana Moss writes that a new Massachusetts economic development bill with a provision for limiting the transferability of tickets to live events has succumbed to Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s campaign to regulate the resale ticket market, strengthening its monopoly and harming consumers.
3. Paul Friederiszick: EU and US Antitrust Is Converging on Anti-Monopoly
There are many differences between European and American antitrust regulation, but recent enforcement against Big Tech shows that in the most important ways they are converging on an anti-monopoly philosophy, writes Paul Friederiszick.
2. Utsav Gandhi: The TikTok Ban Is a Case Study in American Political Economy 101
Utsav Gandhi relates recent developments in the American government’s ban on TikTok and shows how the case maps over broader debates about conflicts between the political goals of national security, freedom of speech, and competition policy.
1. Sarah C. Haan: Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook Is Based on Failures of US Corporate Democracy, not Foreign Dictators
Sarah Haan writes that to understand American authoritarianism, it’s less useful to analyze the strategies of elected dictators around the globe than to look at how corporate leaders in the United States have rigged corporate democracy.
The Next Five: Margherita Colangelo, “Will Trump’s Drug-Pricing Order Reduce Prices for Americans?”; Bill Baer, “What the US Learned and the EU Should Consider About National Champions”; Alexandros Kazimirov, “Are Big Tech’s Quasi-Mergers With AI Startups Anticompetitive?”; Carl Bogus, “Lessons From General Electric Show Why We Need a Merger Cap”; Joseph Price, “A Win for Meta Could Open the Television Broadcasting Market to Consolidation.”
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