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This is post #10 of a multi-part series. Yale Professor Jack Balkin concludes his social media regulation paper (available here) with three specific “policy levers”: Antitrust law and regulation (pp. 91-92) Fiduciary law (pp. 92-93) Legal liability rules (i.e. “intermediary … Continue reading →

I will resume my analysis of Jack Balkin’s social media regulation paper in my next post; in the meantime, check out my most recent lecture on the now-infamous Face-Mash Incident, which occurred in the fall of 2003 when college sophomore … Continue reading →

Check out this unorthodox and informal discussion between myself and the excellent Lipton Matthews (@MatthewsLipton), who invited me to participate in his podcast series to discuss my paper, “Adam Smith in Love.” (Matthews’ entire podcast series is available here. Added … Continue reading →

I just discovered that my micro-paper “Betting on Conspiracies?” was published in the Journal of Brief Ideas (JOBI) on September 12, 2021. (I had submitted my brief idea back in mid-July, but a notification email from JOBI got caught in … Continue reading →

This is post #9 of a multi-part series. The penultimate part of Professor Jack Balkin’s paper “How to regulate … social media” contains my favorite quote about Facebook (Part 8, pp. 88-89, footnote omitted): “Facebook’s history as a company has … Continue reading →

I just realized that I have not blogged about “Hispanic Heritage Month” in the eight years that I have been curating my “prior probability” blog. To help remedy this omission, I thought I would begin by sharing the poster art … Continue reading →

This is post #8 of a multi-part series. In Part 7 of his paper “How to regulate (and not regulate) social media“, Professor Jack Balkin considers two alternatives to direct social media regulation: (1) the creation of a state-owned social … Continue reading →

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On Friday (9/10), on the heels of our disgraceful surrender in Kabul, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to declassify documents related to the FBI’s investigation of the 9/11 terrorist … Continue reading →