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Economists Agree That Stronger Legal Liability for Online Platforms Would Reduce Disinformation

Will Macheel
Will increasing the liability of internet platforms mitigate disinformation? Economists weighed in on the effects of limiting or repealing protections for Big Tech through a recent survey from the Forum for the Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets—previously the Initiative on Global Markets—at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Book Excerpts

How Financial Experts Convince You That They’re the Experts

Alex Preda
In The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media, Alex Preda explores how financial analysts produce their advice and convince audiences...
Big Tech

Capitalisn’t: What’s in the Twitter Files and What Does It Mean?

ProMarket writers
In the March 30 episode of Capitalisn’t, Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingales discuss the Twitter Files, why so much of the mainstream media has...
Misinformation

The Challenges of Regulating Disinformation

Federico Vaccari
In response to rising concerns about political disinformation, governments have introduced a slew of interventions. Federico Vaccari warns in new research that these interventions...
Big Tech

Can Twitter Be a Force for Good? Social Media Helps Curb Corporate Misconduct

Jonas Heese
Collective shaming on social media is crucial in reducing corporate misbehavior — and society would be significantly worse off without watchdog platforms. Social media, once...
Commentary

What Are The Media For?

Surya Gowda
In response to ProMarket's debate about the Twitter Files and the roles of social media and traditional media, Surya Gowda argues that a more...
Big Tech

The Wicked Problem Embodied by The Twitter Files

Tom Ginsburg
In response to a recent ProMarket post about the Twitter Files, professor Tom Ginsburg points out that the toughest question lies in the meaning...
Media

Kyiv Independent Editor-in-Chief: “Leaving Ukraine is the Last Thing I Would Want To Do”

Brooke Fox
The editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent speaks with FT journalist Edward Luce in an exclusive video interview covering the challenges of her position, the...
Media

Chart of the Week: Most News in Russia is Government-Owned or Influenced

Brooke Fox
Of 3.9 million Russian news articles studied, 77 percent were from either a government-owned or government-influenced outlet. In a study which collected 3.9 million...
Antitrust and Competition

How Big Media Handed Digital Advertising to Big Tech

Oles Andriychuk
The current structure of digital advertising markets makes the Google-Facebook duopoly an unavoidable trading partner for every party in the content consumption supply chain,...
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