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In this episode, Anush and Jasper are joined by Dr. Alissa Cooper, Executive Director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute, to discuss KGI’s recent submissions to competition authorities on both sides of the Atlantic regarding Google’s search monopoly.

The Knight-Georgetown Institute unveiled model legislation for state lawmakers seeking to regulate social media algorithms without requiring a default to old-school chronological feeds.

This Tech Policy Press podcast episode was recorded in Barcelona at this year’s Mozilla Festival, with an in-depth conversation on why researcher access to public platform data matters more than ever. TPP’s Justin Hendrix speaks with Peter Chapman, LK Selig, and Brandi Geurkink to unpack the current state of research access to public platform data and to discuss KGI’s new report “Better Access: Data for the Common Good.”

Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against online platform companies alleging harms related to social media, artificial intelligence, and gaming products. Together with the Tech Justice Law Project and the USC Neely Center, KGI is building a network of collaborators developing practical resources for use by litigators as they shape their approaches to discovery and remedy. Our Litigating Platform Design initiative bridges the gap between litigators, technology researchers, and legal scholars – equipping their joint efforts towards tech accountability.

What a great time to be Google. Not only is it facing only the meekest of punishments for abusing its monopoly of the search market, it is actually now positioned to further entrench its dominance of our information landscape. This is a perilous moment to be granting one company this much control over global access to knowledge.

When the government launched an antitrust lawsuit against Google five years ago, it was all about whether the tech giant had a monopoly on internet search. But by the time the judge ruled on punishments for the company this month, the future of artificial intelligence was front and center.

New web standards could limit AI’s access to websites in profound ways, and Big Tech companies including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are trying to halt or water down the effort.

The Knight-Georgetown Institute is pleased to welcome two new Postdoctoral Fritz Family Fellows who will be advancing projects on digital competition and technology policy and litigation.

Today’s post breaks down what just happened and what it means for publishers, marketers, consumers, Big Tech, AI, growth and copyright.

US District Judge Amit Mehta’s order and opinion following a remedy trial in the government’s Internet search monopolization case against Google “pays lip service to the well-supported finding that a package of remedies is required to address the interlocking, mutually reinforcing dynamics of the search market,” according to the Knight-Georgetown Institute.

Despite Google’s resounding defeat last year in the U.S. Department of Justice’s case targeting its search monopoly, the company will face only a mixed bag of remedies aimed at propping up search engine rivals and limiting its distribution contracts.

In a ruling aimed at restoring competition in the search engine market, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta refrained from ordering Google to sell off Chrome, the world’s most popular browser, but ordered the tech company to end exclusive deals that make Google the default search engine on phones and other devices.