Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
Caitlin Chin is a recent McCourt alumna and research Analyst at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation, where she contributes to policy research related to privacy, artificial intelligence, broadband and competition. At McCourt, she was a senior online editor for the Georgetown Public Policy Review. This interview was conducted via email and the responses […]
Conspiracy theories are spreading on social media platforms, and algorithms promoting engagement may contribute to the problem. This article offers a public policy option promising reasonable incentives for social media companies and users to restrain our natural attraction to conspiracy theories. Under this proposed policy, unique defamation lawsuits targeting online falsehoods could result […]