Today with richard stengel, the author of information wars how we lost the global battle against disinformation and what we can do aboutbl it which was published earlier this month. The subject of the book is one rickl knows well. From. From 20132016 he was under secretary of state for Public Diplomacy andnd Public Affairs n Barack Obamas state department. No one has served longer in that post in american history. From 20062013 he was a top editor at Time Magazine, the publication where he worked on and off as a writer and editor dating back to 1981. His previous books include the bestseller mandell is way, and youre too kind, a brief history of flattery. [laughing] more in new york, rick is a graduate of Princeton University and studied english and history at oxford as a rhodes scholar. Please join in welcoming richard stengel. [applause] rick, it is great to have you in austin. Thank you so much for being here. Great to be here. Congratulations on the book. Its an interesting and c i
The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to our first hearing on Online Platforms and market power, focusing on the free and Diverse Press. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. In recent years, there has been a cascade of competition problems on the internet. Concentration in the Digital Marketing has pushed for journalism to the verge of extension. The acquisitions, growing innovation kills him, and high Network Effects and switching costs, appear to undermine entrepreneurship and startup rates. The sheer dominance of some platforms has resulted in the worst products, significantly less choice, leaving people without a competitive alternative to services that harvest the data, manipulative behavior to monetize her attention. Response to these trends, the committee will commit conduct a bipartisan the purpose of this investigation is to document anticompetitive combat conduct online. Examine and and assess whether the com
The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to our first hearing on Online Platforms and market power, focusing on the free and Diverse Press. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. In recent years, there has been a cascade of competition problems on the internet. Concentration in the Digital Marketing has pushed for journalism to the verge of extension. The acquisitions, growing innovation kills him, and high Network Effects and switching costs, appear to undermine entrepreneurship and startup rates. The sheer dominance of some platforms has resulted in the worst products, significantly less choice, leaving people without a competitive alternative to services that harvest the data, manipulative behavior to monetize her attention. Response to these trends, the committee will commit conduct a bipartisan the purpose of this investigation is to document anticompetitive combat conduct online. Examine and and assess whether the com
Can we adjust to that new world. He served as the special master of the redistricting plan for many states and his current work examines the impact of changing technology for Political Communications and andtion administrations that is what he will be talking about here today. That, welcome nate. [applause] thank you so much. Its an honor to be here and on this panel. The table andset they will break the china. I will talk about the issues and they are going to does this is a deep dive anyway. They will dive deeply into it. Topic. S is a big the question of how the internet affects democracy. What are the unique challenges that the internet poses for democracy. , what would reforms look like . I want to start with a few caveats, which there are several always get these objections whenever i talk about democracy and the internet, which is we have all seen this before. That is the first academic disagreement. And the answer is, yes. Some of these problems we have seen before. Yes, we hav
Professor of law at stanford law school. His scholarship focuses on Voting Rights, political parties, Campaign Finance, redistricting, and elections administration. He served as special master for expert to craft districting plans for many straight and senior director for the Election Administration and his current work examines changing technology on political communications, campaigns, and Election Administration. Broadly that is what he will be talking about here today. With that, lets welcome nathan. [applause] thank you so much. It is an honor to be here. And it is an honor to be on this panel. We have a lot of people following me. My role is to set the table and they are going to break the china. I will talk about the issues and they will dive deeply into it. Obviously,ig topic dealing with the question of how the internet affects democracy. I want to focus on three questions. Want to focus on three questions. The first is what are the unique challenges that the internet poses fo