Hello colleagues! Debate about platform regulation is intensifying rapidly, with the recent House report, last week’s DoJ suit against Google and today’s hearings on Section 230. Today Nick Couldry at LSE and I published our take on platform regulation here <https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/working.papers/AWP_155_final.pdf> . We argue, drawing on the great work of many on this list, that approaches to date do not go nearly far enough to address the social harms that the major platforms’ business model generates: what is needed is a complete regulatory reset that realigns platforms' relations with our society and our politics. We’d love to hear all and any thoughts and reactions to our report. All the best, -Dipayan <><><><><><><><><> *Dipayan Ghosh, Ph.D.* Digital Platforms & Democracy Project | Harvard Kennedy School dir: (617) 496-0337 | cell: (860) 933-6225 @ghoshd7 <https://twitter.com/ghoshd7> My new book, Terms of Disservice <https://www.amazon.com/Terms-Disservice-Silicon-Valley-Destructive/dp/0815737653>, is out now! <https://www.amazon.com/Terms-Disservice-Silicon-Valley-Destructive/dp/0815737653>