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The milestone ruling by a New Mexico court last week that found Meta contributed to a youth mental health crisis could serve as a blueprint for other states — and individuals — to mount lawsuits seeking to hold tech companies liable for harms stemming from their platforms.

Last month may come to be seen as a turning point for the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). Over the course of July, the European Commission paired major policy initiatives with a series of consequential enforcement actions involving some of the world’s largest technology companies. Even seasoned DSA experts have been struck by the pace and scope of these developments.

On February 9-10, 2027 in Washington, D.C., the Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI), the Yale Tobin Center’s Digital Economy Project, and Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) will co-host the Digital Competition Conference 2027 (DCC ‘27), an annual policy and research conference that explores the latest lessons, challenges, and opportunities in competition regulation and enforcement in digital markets. The conference brings together researchers, policymakers, regulators, businesses, litigators, technologists, and civil society experts for evidence-driven dialogue about business practices that pose competition risks or may generate other harms, possible remedies, and areas for future analysis.

Now that Google is required to share its search data with competitors, the question turns to whether such sharing can be done in a way that is privacy safe. Do PETs offer a solution? Is this simply a place where privacy interests and competition interests are perpetually at odds? Is this simply another opportunity for Google to delay? Alan Chapell sits down with Alissa Cooper of the KGI to discuss the DOJ search remedies, the EU Digital Markets Act, privacy, AI, and what search data sharing could mean for competition and innovation.

Alabama officials are grappling with the negative consequences of artificial intelligence and social media platforms that can lead some users to isolation, addiction, abuse and self-harm. The Study Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Children’s Internet Safety heard presentations Wednesday on ways to regulate algorithms and legislation to help stem the proliferation of AI-generated images that victimize real people.

Measuring Risk II finds that Snap and YouTube have internal capabilities to measure risk and evaluate safety interventions, yet their public risk assessments provide little evidence that their safety mitigations reach users or work in practice.

A landmark case is forcing Brussels to decide whether opening Google’s search data to rivals can boost competition without undermining Europeans’ privacy.

Europe’s pro-competition proposals could see Google Search and Android systems opened up. The company claims there are serious privacy flaws.

In June 2026, KGI welcomed Claire McCrea as Operations Associate. Claire provides operational support to KGI, the Center for Digital Ethics, and the Institute for Technology Law & Policy.

Google’s dominance in search is increasingly under scrutiny as regulators on both sides of the Atlantic consider whether new rules could reshape competition in the AI-driven search era. Against this backdrop, earlier this year, the European Commission initiated specification proceedings regarding Google’s noncompliance with Article 6(11) of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which requires the company to share ranking, query, click, and view data with its rivals.

Jury verdicts against technology juggernauts like Meta Platforms Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. are spotlighting the role complex litigation plays in shaping tech policy in the absence of comprehensive legislation. Bellwether trial losses and settlements in cases over social media and ride-share platform safety have become important pressure points in creating substantive design limits.

A landmark New Mexico case, which alleges that Meta failed to protect children online, has entered a pivotal new phase—one that will test whether courts can require changes that make social media safe for young users.