Engagement-maximizing algorithms shape our online experiences and are often linked to a range of harms + negative impacts on user wellbeing. But some platform designers are charting a different course, moving away from short-term attention maximization to feeds that prioritize long-term user value 🧵

🧵Our new model bill for US lawmakers showing how online platforms can be tasked with creating better algorithmic feeds was featured in Pluribus News. Read more here: pluribusnews.com/news-and-eve... /1

Every day, algorithms shape what we see, read and watch. Our new explainer with KGI’s @alissacooper.bsky.social shows how feeds work and how platforms + policymakers can design better feeds that are optimized for long-term user value instead of short term engagement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8kD...

We recently concluded a special article series, “Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data,” in collaboration with the Knight-Georgetown Institute, in which experts explored why access to public platform data is critical. Here’s a snapshot: (1/9)

We're thrilled to be at #MozFest 2025 in Barcelona this week! If you're here, join our session on public platform data tomorrow (10:15am CET): “Unlearning Data Barriers: A New Framework for Access to High-Influence Public Platform Data.” 🎟️More info here: schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/143

📣Announcing our new series with @techpolicypress.bsky.social "Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data". Should we be able to understand the risks kids face online? How businesses target consumers? How politicians communicate? These qs depend on access to public platform data. 👇

Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect & who gets heard. In partnership with KGI, we are launching a new series, Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data. The series starts today, with an essay from Leticia Bode & Peter Chapman. www.techpolicy.press/seeing-the-d...

Despite the importance of data about what happens in public on online platforms, there is no shared framework for how research, journalism, and independent investigations should be conducted with public platform data. The Better Access framework we released today provides that. Incredible work!

📣 Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard, yet researcher access to public platform data is shrinking, while platforms monetize this data. Our new report "Better Access" offers a framework for accessing this critical data: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...

We were honored to host Jonathan Sallet, lead litigator for the State Plaintiffs in US v. Google, for an in-depth talk on the trial & remedies issued by the court. Watch the recording 👇 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yD... 📬 Subscribe to stay updated on our events: kgi.georgetown.edu/contact-us/#...

🚨 We’re hiring! The Knight-Georgetown Institute is seeking a Senior Technologist to join our team and lead on the technical aspects of our work on platform governance & competition policy. DC-based or remote. Applications are requested by November 7, 2025 👇 kgi.georgetown.edu/senior-techn...

⏰Last chance to register for our event with Jonathan Sallet tomorrow! Join in-person or via Zoom. There will be free lunch for in-person attendees. 🎟️Registration required www.eventbrite.com/e/google-sea... October 8, 2025 | 12:30-2PM ET (1-2PM for Zoom attendees) | 📍Georgetown Capitol Campus (DC)

⏰ 1 week left! Submissions for the Digital Competition Conference 2026 close next Monday, Oct 13. We’re inviting research on digital competition, remedies & enforcement – from search to social networking, ads & more. 📝 Submit here: kgi.georgetown.edu/news/call-fo...

New @nytimes.com: @juliaangwin.com explains how the US v. Google remedies ruling could further entrench Google’s search dominance. KGI’s @alissacooper.bsky.social notes “[t]he remedies here are unlikely to create the circumstances for competitive entry in search.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

🚨Event alert! “Google Search: A View from the Counsel’s Table” Join us Oct 8 (in person or virtually) as Jonathan Sallet, lead litigator for the State Plaintiffs in the US v. Google search antitrust case, breaks down the case and the remedies ruling. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/google-sea...

🚨 We’re hiring! The Knight-Georgetown Institute is seeking a Senior Technologist to join our team and lead on the technical aspects of our work on platform governance & competition policy. DC-based or remote. Apply here 👉 kgi.georgetown.edu/senior-techn...

Come hang out with us and talk about data access! #tsrconf

We're speaking at two #TSRConf sessions today at 11:30am PT. @alissacooper.bsky.social's “Fixing the Feeds: A Policy Road Map to Address Algorithmic Recommender System Harms” will provide insights on how algorithms can be better designed to put user well-being and long term user value first.

We're excited to be part of the 2025 Trust & Safety Research Conference at @stanfordcyber.bsky.social this week, bringing together leaders across research, policy, and platforms working at the intersection of technology, online harms, and platform governance. #TSRConf

📣 New on @techpolicypress.bsky.social: Our analysis of US v. Google digs deep into Judge Mehta’s remedies ruling, exploring what we can expect from the data sharing remedies in the absence of a ban on default payments. Read more from @alissacooper.bsky.social 👇 www.techpolicy.press/without-a-pa...

This week, KGI’s @alissacooper.bsky.social is featured in NPR about what the Google Search antitrust ruling means for the future of AI and why the remedies may be too limited to pave the way for more search competition. Full story here 👉 www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...

🚨Antitrust & digital competition are in the news almost daily – from decisions issued in cases against Google search and ad tech to DMA enforcement actions involving Apple and Meta and new private litigation in multiple jurisdictions. 👇

So much to unpack from Judge Mehta’s remedy opinion in the US v. Google search case. If these remedies ultimately go into effect, evidence indicates that Google’s dominance over online search – a critical information pathway for billions of internet users – will remain entrenched. Long 🧵⬇️

⏳ Time is running out! Vote by Aug 24 to help bring KGI’s Fixing Our Feeds panel to #SXSW. Let’s design algorithms that put people first – not clicks. 💡 👉 participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

📅 Announcing: Digital Competition Conference 2026 Feb 5-6, 2026📍Washington DC Cohosted by KGI, Yale Tobin Center’s Digital Economy Project & Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, exploring latest lessons in tech competition regulation & enforcement kgi.georgetown.edu/news/call-fo...

🚨New op-ed in @newsweek.com by KGI’s @alissacooper.bsky.social and Eric Rescorla: Yes, Chrome really *can* survive without Google. This article breaks down how the proposed Chrome divestiture as part of the US v. Google search antitrust case is technically feasible www.newsweek.com/yes-chrome-r...

KGI's @pfchap.bsky.social was featured on @techpolicypress.bsky.social, breaking down AliExpress' recent binding commitments under the EU’s Digital Services Act on six key areas including recommender and advertising system transparency and researcher data access www.techpolicy.press/lessons-from...

Peter Chapman unpacks AliExpress’ binding commitments under the DSA—and why they matter. From recommender transparency to researcher access and monitoring, he explores how these steps could drive real accountability.

🚨NEW Report: The Technical Feasibility of Divesting Google Chrome 🚨 Our report shows a Google Chrome divestiture is technically feasible and offers an engineering assessment of what it would take to separate Chrome from Google – and succeed: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and... #USvGoogle

Excited to launch the Federal Alumni & Digital Service Alumni Fellows program welcoming 9 former fed tech & policy leaders to Georgetown's Tech & Society Initiative & @scientistsorg.bsky.social! beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/georgetown-u... @knightgtown.bsky.social @beeckcenter.bsky.social

How can platforms build better algorithmic feeds? Pinterest shares its approach: using user surveys to guide its recommender system – reducing harm and increasing relevance. Here’s how it works 👇 medium.com/pinterest-en... 🧵

How can platforms build better algorithmic feeds? Pinterest shares its approach: using user surveys to guide its recommender system – reducing harm and increasing relevance. Here’s how it works 👇 medium.com/pinterest-en... 🧵

The folks at @knightgtown.bsky.social are doing cutting-edge research on recommender systems. 👇 In this new commentary for @dsaobservatory.bsky.social l, @alissacooper.bsky.social and Peter Chapman discuss key findings and their relevance to the DSA. dsa-observatory.eu/2025/05/19/m...

🚨New exciting job opportunity! Applications are open for our Postdoctoral Fritz Fellowship in Digital Competition Research! This position will work with KGI & @gtowntechlaw.bsky.social based at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Apply here today: kgi.georgetown.edu/postdoctoral...

A bit older now, but still worth a read (in my humble opinion). Google just wrapped their case with closing arguments expected at the end of the month

"We will know these remedies have been successful when there is entry into the market" KGI's @alissacooper.bsky.social speaks at GW Law and Crowell & Moring's Antitrust & Tech conference on the recently litigated monopolization cases against Google, and how remedies can be crafted most effectively.

🤔Is there a better approach to creating better social media algorithms than an outright ban on personalized feeds? Our Executive Director @alissacooper.bsky.social was featured on the Foundation for American Innovation's The Dynamist podcast to help answer this question... [thread]

Our ED @alissacooper.bsky.social spoke to NPR's @jaclynmdiaz.bsky.social about why AI has been featuring so prominently in the #Google #antitrust search case – helping to break down how connected AI growth & search engines are. A must-read for anyone following the case: www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...

"the [Google search] case is a really great opportunity to try to … analyze how Google has benefited specifically from the monopoly that it has in search, and ensure that the behavior that led to that can't be used to gain an unfair advantage in these other markets which are more nascent."

Today the #USvGoogle trial about how to remedy Google's online search monopoly wraps up its 1st week. This antitrust remedies trial is significant in that it has the potential to drastically transform online search - hopefully leading to a more competitive and vibrant online information environment

We're currently tuned into this fantastic deep dive under the hood of the algorithm, and how algorithms & AI are reshaping democracy + our information ecosystem. Check out our colleagues @paulohm.bsky.social, @juliaangwin.com, @jatucker.bsky.social & @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social #StiglerAntitrust2025

Next up at #StiglerAntitrust25, we take a look “under the hood” of the algorithms that structure the digital public sphere with this panel exploring the technical mechanisms governing contemporary online discourses. Watch live now: chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/events/livestream

"The EU institutions acted on facts that we can all plainly see in our daily lives, which is that these platforms have systemic impacts, not only individualized ones." @alissacooper.bsky.social (@knightgtown.bsky.social) at #StiglerAntitrust25

"The signature accomplishment of the DSA thus far is that the EU acted on facts we see plainly in our daily lives: that platforms have systemic risks on society...Thinking about things systemically acknowledges the feedback loops that are inherent in these systems" - @alissacooper.bsky.social

🚨TODAY! 🚨 @alissacooper.bsky.social speaks at #StiglerAntitrust25 about the EU’s DSA & moving away from unwinnable content moderation wars to a place where we apply science, empirical evidence + rigorous measurement to assess systemic societal risks. Watch here: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/sti...

👀 Follow KGI's @zanderarnao.bsky.social who will be posting live from #StiglerAntitrust25! We're excited for the panels and deep dives into some of the most pressing issues impacting the digital environment. @promarket.bsky.social 📺 Tune in live: chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/events/livestream

📣 We're excited to announce that KGI's @alissacooper.bsky.social will be speaking about the EU's Digital Services Act tomorrow at #StiglerAntiTrust2025 at the University of Chicago! 📅 Thurs, April 10, 2025 (12:10-1:10pm CDT) 📺 RSVP for the livestream link here: chicagobooth.edu/StiglerAntitrust25

📢 Did you miss KGI at Georgetown University's Tech & Society Week? We brought together leading experts to discuss the industry-wide shifts in social media platform design, as well as the growing wave of litigation that aims to protect users online. Learn more here: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...

🚨 The Digital Services Act CSO Coordination Group, convened by @cdteu.bsky.social, dropped its analysis of the first round of DSA systemic risk assessments this month. It’s a must-read for anyone tracking platform accountability in the EU. 🧵