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Elettra Bietti

Elettra Bietti is an assistant professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University School of Law and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Bietti was previously a joint fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU and the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech in New York. Bietti studies digital platforms as well as privacy, data protection and antitrust law. She defends an approach to law that is sensitive to infrastructural and collective concerns in the digital economy.
Antitrust and Competition

Product Liability Beats Antitrust in the Fight for Human Attention

Elettra Bietti
In new research, Elettra Bietti compares the efficacy of the two legal avenues that have arisen to restrain social media’s ability to monopolize people’s time and attention: antitrust policy and product liability for consumer harm. Looking at the results of two recent Meta cases, she finds that product liability has proven the most capable in introducing the frictions needed to reduce social media’s addictive design.
Antitrust and Competition

Data, Context and Competition Policy

Elettra Bietti
Data has a tendency to be misunderstood. It is often compared to a raw material like oil, waste, or capital. Elettra Bietti argues that...
Antitrust and Competition

How the Free Software and the IP Wars of the 1990s and 2000s Presaged Today’s Toxic, Concentrated Internet

Elettra Bietti
How did the internet evolve from a relatively decentralized, hybrid, and democratizing space toward a concentrated, privatized environment controlled by a handful of actors?...

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