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A group of researchers wants to help state lawmakers get smarter about writing laws that regulate social media feeds — and they’ll be detailing their ideas here this week at the National Conference of States Legislatures’s annual legislative summit.

An estimated 4 billion people around the world use Chrome. But what if Google didn’t control the world’s most-used web browser? There’s a chance this question might no longer be hypothetical. In the U.S. government’s landmark antitrust case against Google for illegally monopolizing the online search market, one of the most consequential and hotly debated remedies on the table is the proposed spin-off of Chrome—a browser that drives more than a third of Google’s search traffic and acts as a powerful gatekeeper to the internet.

Four billion people use Chrome to access the web but after three antitrust losses, the Department of Justice has demanded the browser is spun out and handed to a new custodian to power the next generation of the open web.

We are joined by leading voices in tech policy and browser tech to discuss how big a job that actually is. Alissa Cooper is the executive director of the Knight Georgetown Institute, and Eric Rescorla is the former CTO of the Firefox browser.

In June, the European Commission announced that AliExpress agreed to a number of binding commitments to address concerns raised in proceedings under the Digital Services Act (DSA). This analysis for Tech Policy Press breaks down the AliExpress commitments and why they matter, with a focus on how commitments for recommender system transparency, access to public data for researchers, and monitoring can lead to meaningful accountability.

In a new report, Eric Rescorla and Alissa Cooper analyze how Google’s browser, Chrome, could operate successfully as an independent entity if the court presiding over Google Search orders its divestiture.

A new report released today by the Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) offers an engineering assessment of what it would take to separate Chrome from Google – and succeed.

In June 2025, KGI welcomed Eric Rescorla as Senior Research Fellow with a focus on the intersection of Internet technologies with policy, working across our projects on platform governance and competition.

New initiative brings nine experts with federal government experience to work with the FAS and Tech & Society’s Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation, the Knight-Georgetown Institute, and the Institute for Technology Law & Policy

The Digital Services Act sets out broad new legal requirements to make recommender systems more transparent and accountable, including for their role in systemic risks. To fulfill that promise, implementation must go beyond basic disclosures and defaults; it must shape how these systems are designed and assessed over time.

When the U.S. Department of Justice originally brought – and then won – its case against Google, arguing that the tech behemoth monopolized the search engine market, the focus was on, well … search. Back then, in 2020, the government’s antitrust complaint against Google had few mentions of artificial intelligence or AI chatbots. But nearly five years later, as the remedy phase of the trial enters its second week of testimony, the focus has shifted to AI, underscoring just how quickly this emerging technology has expanded.

A federal court ruling found that Google violated antitrust laws in two online advertising markets. California Attorney General Rob Bonta might have a winning strategy against Big Tech after Google’s big antitrust loss in court. This case was brought against the search giant in 2023 longside the U.S. Justice Department and 16 other state attorneys general, and is a notable win for Bonta’s office after a string of recent court losses to tech industry groups suing California on First Amendment grounds.

In March 2025, KGI welcomed Julie Anne Miranda-Brobeck as Communications Director. Julie Anne leads on KGI’s communications strategy, branding, and media relations.