Samuel Woolley
Samuel C. Woolley is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and an assistant professor, by courtesy, in the School of Information--both at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the project director for propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement (CME) at UT.
Woolley is currently a research associate at the Project for Democracy and the Internet at Stanford University. He has held past research affiliations at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California at Berkeley.
Antitrust and Competition
False News Has a Long History—But Those In Power Failed To Heed It
In his book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth, Samuel Woolley explores how governments failed...
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The Road to Hayek: A Comprehensive History of Neoliberalism’s Forefather
In their first of two volumes, economic historians Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger access new archival material to explore the first fifty...
News
International Policymaking Must Evolve
In this Q&A about his new book for ProMarket, Paul Tucker explains the changing global order and the need for academics, policymakers...
ESG
Capitalism Does Not Require a Tradeoff Between Planet and Profit
Critics of capitalism claim that the economic system incorrigibly encourages the exploitation of the planet and is thus incompatible with efforts to...
Academic Capture
Event Notes: Academic Bias Under the Microscope
That scholarship often reflects conscious and unconscious biases has long been an open secret in academia. On April 22, Professors Christian Leuz,...
Commentary
Corporations Are Not “We the People”
The Citizens United ruling contradicts the Founders, decades of Supreme Court precedent and the will of the American people.
Antitrust and Competition
Too Many Economists Are Using a Flawed Theory To Defend Dominant Platforms’ Self-Preferencing Practices
Congress is currently considering two major bills that would regulate “self-preferencing” and related conduct by dominant digital platforms. Criticism of these bills...
Antitrust and Competition
Unfair Methods of Competition
The FTC’s new policy on unfair methods of competition is an assertion of the original purpose of the agency, allowing it to...
