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February 2018

Mueller asking if President Trump knew about hacked Democratic emails before release

Apparently, special counsel Robert Mueller's team is asking witnesses pointed questions about whether Donald Trump was aware that Democratic e-mails had been stolen before that was publicly known, and whether he was involved in their strategic release. Mueller's investigators have asked witnesses whether Trump was aware of plans for WikiLeaks to publish the e-mails. They have also asked about the relationship between GOP operative Roger Stone and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and why President Trump took policy positions favorable to Russia.

Multisided Platforms and Antitrust Enforcement

Multisided platforms are ubiquitous in today’s economy. Although newspapers demonstrate that the platform business model is scarcely new, recent economic analysis has explored more deeply the manner of its operation. Drawing upon these insights, we conclude that enforcers and courts should use a multiple-markets approach in which different groups of users on different sides of a platform belong in different product markets. This approach appropriately accounts for cross-market network effects without collapsing all of a platform’s users into a single product market.

The Inclusive Internet Index 2018

The Index provides an international benchmark of internet inclusion across four categories: availability, affordability, relevance and readiness. Among the countries included in the Index, the proportion of men that access the Internet is, on average, 33.5% higher than the proportion of women. Among low-income countries, the gender gap is 80.2% in favour of men.

Influence? In this economy?

[Commentary] While the academic jury is still out on whether a person getting their news from social media makes them any more or less partisan than those who sought out right-wing talk radio or lefty political journals a generation ago, there exists another filter bubble that, while it’s received relatively little public attention, affects the majority of people reading this article: The average producer of online content is far more internet-savvy than the average consumer of online content.  While it’s always been expected that journalists and intellectuals be more knowledgeable about th

Washington State just passed the country’s toughest net neutrality legislation

Washington State has passed sweeping legislation to regulate internet access for its residents. The bill cleared the state senate on a 35-to-14 vote, with bipartisan support. It had already blown through the house of representatives by 93-to-5 on February 9, and Gov Jay Inslee (D-WA) is on record as ready to sign it. Washington’s law applies to all Internet service providers that serve residents, whether or not they have state deals. All internet service offered in Washington would have to be free from blocking or throttling of legal online content.

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