What happens when AI makes answers really cheap? Human questions become ever more important. We also need the skill to challenge those answers lest we become complacent and miss the bigger picture. New work with Sangeet Choudary shows how to do this: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sieyk...

Do you have a platform challenge? #Strategy #Launch? #Monetization? #OpenInnovation? #Growth Student teams will produce a 25-page solution for you to boost their learning. Any platform topic is possible. Call for projects here: tinyurl.com/PlatStrat26 Pls Share.

New working paper on reducing fraud and deception by AI agents using mechanism design. Comments are very welcome. Market Design Interventions for Safer Agentic AI aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/gen...

Someone ready to march!

New poll shows only 28% of Americans trust the media - lowest ever. In related news, you shouldn't trust a Tweet. news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...

New poll shows only 28% of Americans trust the media - lowest ever. In related news, you shouldn't trust a Tweet. news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...

Do non-citizens have free speech rights in the US? Historic ruling: yes they do! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

New report ranks LI, Insta, FB, YouTube, TikTok & X for prevalence and monetization of misinformation science.feedback.org/first-measur...

The new $100,000 fee for an H1-B visa to the US is idiotic. It's hard to design a policy more likely to move hi tech jobs overseas www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New research attributes probability of heat events to individual companies www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The summary of the MIT Platform Summit is now available ide.mit.edu/publication-... @mitsloanphd.bsky.social

The great silencing: Colbert (comedy), Washington Post (news), Columbia (education), NIH (medicine), NOAA (climate). Killing free speech is how democracy dies open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

BU Platform Summit July 15 features great rsch on social media, using AI to build platforms, decentralization, M&A strategies, robo taxis... $1000 best paper prize. Program: questromworld.bu.edu/platformstra... Registration: questromworld.bu.edu/platformstra... We look forward to seeing you!

Recommended reading - The Anti Autocracy Handbook

How can we create value from data but give users more control? One possibility is a just published proposal for a new data right www.networklawreview.org/data-sharing/

The MIT Platform Summit is here this July. See speakers and registration at platforms.mit.edu @g2parker.bsky.social

Trump attacking student visas completely undercuts his narrative that his immigration policies rid the US of gang members, rapists, and drug dealers. He's making unwelcome some of the most talented people in the world. The damage will last a decade.

3 tested ways to undermine autocrats - mockery, highlight corruption, human examples www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

International students upend their lives to join American science, bringing their novel insights that drive innovation. Now, they are being illegally targeted by Trump, because Harvard won't back down. Classic bully behavior. We Stand Up for International Students. www.npr.org/2025/05/22/n...

We are alarmed by the Trump administration’s latest escalation against Harvard University. International students are a vital part of our universities and our nation. By causing a great deal of chaos for Harvard students and their communities, this action is as harmful as it is unlawful.

Not only is this illegal, as Harvard says, it also punishes all international students for the actions of a few. And it's hurting Americans who benefit from having the perspectives and knowledge of brilliant young people who study here. www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...

The damage goes far beyond Harvard. Threats to academia promote a brain drain of talent across students and across universities that has serious long term consequences for American innovation over the long term.

Trump admin revokes Harvard ability to sponsor int'l students. Visa holders must transfer or be deported. Attacks must stop! Speak up! Donate to Harvard, donate to ACLU, oppose any legislator who supports these pro-censorship, anti-education, anti-science activities nationalpost.com/news/world/t...

We're delighted to welcome Prof. Marshall Van Alstyne @infoecon.bsky.social, @buquestrom.bsky.social, Digital Fellow MIT IDE to Platform Leaders for a groundbreaking keynote on "The Misinformation Machine: social media, fake news, and the future of truth". Register for free 👉 platformleaders.com

Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b... The goal: silence researchers & hide the truth. Reality: This research is NOT about censorship. @infoecon.bsky.social: Will "lead to a vastly more polluted information environment.”

Internet users can seek out interactions with like-minded individuals who have similar values and become less likely to trust important decisions to people whose values differ from their own. Published 2005 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ji0n0... @erikbryn.bsky.social

How might we curb misinformation with no censorship and no central authority judging truth? New talk at the U Cambridge Disinformation Summit www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Pi...

Dear Canada- Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever. ❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸 #MakeAmericaNormalAgain

New ways to grow both traditional and platform businesses by managing your interactions. Research from @hbr.org . @thinkers50.com hbr.org/2025/05/are-...

Eloquent writing on what is happening in the US. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Deadline FRIDAY!

The AAUP correctly called Columbia's actions "Cowardice & Capitulation". It's time to resist the tyranny of the Trump administration www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

It's time to jump on board and help

Overheard: The Tesla Chainsaw Massacre.

The #TrumpSlump is upon us as tariffs strangle the economies of the US, Canada and Mexico www.cnbc.com/2025/03/09/s...

To our Canadian friends, we sincerely regret the Trump administration's latest export: stupidity.

Beautifully said

Beware attacker doublespeak. Research on misinformation is not misinformation. Research on censorship is not censorship. Use your right of free speech to defend your right to learn who's trying to deceive you.

The potential to use AI for influence and deceit is remarkable. NYT story highlights a woman who moved in with her folks to afford nursing school but got hooked on an AI boyfriend, paying $200/month for access #ai #influence www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

Fascinating development today in quantum computing from Microsoft #quantumcomputing news.microsoft.com/source/featu...

My youngest son just published his 1st scientific article. I'm feeling old (but proud)! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Hats off to @schaller67.bsky.social who called it before it happened

CALL FOR PAPERS 12th Annual Platform Research Symposium Boston University Questrom School of Business July 14-15, 2025 Submissions Due: April 11, 2025 Submit your best platform research at platforms.bu.edu $1000 Alessandro di Fiore Best Paper prize #platforms #strategy #conference #AI #Governance

There are some beautiful things to remember today

What if we could reduce the flow of misinformation with no censorship and no central authority judging truth? What role could digital markets play in mitigating false claims while boosting free expression? #platforms #FreeSpeech #Section230 #misinformation www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLIX...

Can AI solve your problem? If not, how could you improve your chances? New work in Harvard Business Review provides answers thx to Chiara Farronato, Paolo Cervini & Pushmeet Kohli (@deep-mind.bsky.social) #AI #genAI hbr.org/2024/12/is-a...

We had great drinks and great cheer to celebrate end of term and progress on great fake news research. @swapneel.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social

How are governments dealing with AI? New article from Mark Esposito at Harvard BKC www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/go...

Honest paradox question: how can people rage at United Healthcare and gloat over shooting its CEO, yet so few vote for universal healthcare over private coverage?