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When Antitrust Met Facebook
Yoo, Christopher S. - 2012
Social networks are among the most dynamic forces on the Internet, increasingly displacing search engines as the …
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The Antitrust Case Against Facebook
Srinivasan, Dina - 2019
The Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”) social network, this era's new communications service, plays an important role in the lives of 2+ billion people across the world. Though the market was highly competitive in the beginning, it has since consolidated in Facebook's favor. Today, using Facebook...
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Privacy and Antitrust in Digital Platforms
Economides, Nicholas; Lianos, Ioannis - 2021
Dominant digital platforms such as Google and Facebook collect personal information of users by default precipitating a market failure in the market for personal information. We establish the economic harms from the market failure. We discuss conditions for eliminating the market failure and...
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U.S. Antitrust Policy in the Age of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix and Facebook
Hazlett, Thomas W. - 2020
Are U.S. digital markets advancing, or threatening, the American economy? There is keen interest in the answer to this question. Sweeping changes have disrupted society courtesy of the Information Revolution, presenting great opportunities in radically transformed economic markets but also great...
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Antitrust Über Alles. Whither Competition Law After Facebook?
Colangelo, Giuseppe - 2019
After a three-year investigation the German Competition Authority found Facebook's data policy abusive. In the authority's assessment, by making the use of its social-networking service conditional upon users granting extensive permission to collect and process their personal data, Facebook...
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The Dead Hand of Cellophane and the Federal Google and Facebook Antitrust Cases : Market Delineation Will Be Crucial
White, Lawrence J. - 2022
The DOJ and FTC monopolization cases against Google and Facebook, respectively, represent the most important federal non-merger antitrust initiatives since (at least) the 1990s. As in any monopolization case, market delineation will be a central feature of both cases – as it was in the du Pont...
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Facebook, Welfare, and Natural Monopoly : A Quantitative Analysis of Antitrust Remedies
Chang, Felix; Benzell, Seth - 2022
This Article advances a novel theoretical model for assessing policy interventions against Facebook. As prosecutors barrel forward against digital platforms, soon it will fall upon courts and, eventually, regulators to devise remedies. We argue that any sensible solution must include...
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Digital Antitrust : An Emerging Consensus?
Mancini, James - 2021
An increasing number of jurisdictions are considering adjustments to their competition policy framework to reflect the unique challenges of digitalization. Indeed, several studies have been formally commissioned on the subject. While their legal context, focus and findings vary significantly;...
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The economics of the German investigation of Facebook's data collection
Budzinski, Oliver; Gruševaja, Marina; Noskova, Victoriia - 2020
The importance of digital platforms and related data-driven business models is ever increasing and poses challenges for the workability of competition in the respective markets (tendencies towards dominant platforms, paying-with-data instead of traditional money, privacy concerns, etc.). Due to...
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Threat of internet platforms : Facebook, Google, etc.
Alleman, James H. - 2018
Free!! Google and Facebook!!! We all know them, what to worry about? Everything! The giants of the internet are … threat to social order and democracy posed by Facebook and Google, as well as others in the internet space. Facebook, and … on the internet. Indeed, they make money off the proliferation of this misinformation. For example, even by its own …
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