In a recent podcast, New York Times journalist Ezra Klein hosted lawyer Tim Wu and writer Cory Doctorow for a conversation titled “We Didn’t Ask for This Internet.” They ran …
Economy
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Markets might be able to price truth. Whether anyone wants to buy it is another question. In a recent post, we looked at a small cluster of systems that try …
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The U.S. Supreme Court just made it much harder to hold at least some internet intermediaries liable for what their users do. And in the process, it may have made …
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A pair of jury verdicts last week, along with a quiet settlement, may mark a turning point for the American internet—and not one that favors free expression. For years, digital …
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Washington has a choice: let AI policy fragment into 50 competing regimes, or set a clear federal baseline that keeps innovation moving. The Trump administration’s new artificial intelligence (AI) legislative …
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Brazil’s competition authority (CADE) and Apple signed a Dec. 29 settlement agreement (Termo de Compromisso de Cessação, or TCC) resolving a high-stakes antitrust investigation Mercado Livre initiated in 2022 in …
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Last month, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee released an interim staff report examining CVS Health’s relationships with digital pharmacy services. Led by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the report takes aim …
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Nearly 17 months after the Federal Trade Commission filed suit against the nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the agency has reached a settlement with one of them: Express …
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Germany’s competition watchdog has turned a familiar retail feature into an antitrust offense. In a recent decision, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) effectively faulted Amazon for showing shoppers only …
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Canada is on the verge of hard-coding costly mistakes into its merger policy. The Competition Bureau’s proposed merger guidelines aim to translate Parliament’s recent overhaul of the Competition Act into …