Alissa Cooper
@alissacooper
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An interesting and important report by @knightgtown on the technical feasibility of a potential Chrome spinoff. Great research by @alissacooper
How can platforms build better algorithmic feeds? @Pinterest @PinterestEng shares its approach: using user surveys to guide its recommender system – reducing harm and increasing relevance. Here’s how it works 👇 medium.com/pinterest-engi… 🧵
New from @ProfFionasm and Paul Heidhues: Google Search’s Exclusivity Payments Must Be Capped promarket.org/2025/07/18/goo… via @ProMarket_org
bUt hoW wOUld a cHroMe diVeStituRE woRK? Is it EVEN LEGAL to UNSCRAMBLE EGGS? Fortunately, there are now a bunch of resources to understand every aspect of this remedy for Google's illegally maintained search monopoly Just today, a new technical report dropped: 🧵
Wondering if Chrome could operate independently from Google if it were to be divested? We've got a comprehensive technical assessment for you:
🚨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-c… #USvGoogle
New panel 🎬 youtube.com/watch?v=9KqQqy… Alissa Cooper (Knight-Georgetown), Cori Crider (Open Markets Institute) & Aurélien Mähl (@DuckDuckGo ) offer their views on the situation with competition in online search, on the latest legislative initiatives and cases
🚨New exciting job opportunity! Applications are open for our Postdoctoral Fritz Fellow in Digital Competition Research! Read more below. Apply here today 👉 kgi.georgetown.edu/postdoctoral-f…
Videos of our Real Solutions Summit are now live! Catch up on the different sessions with @elilehrerdc @JonahDispatch @DC_Hartman @knowledgeprob @NiconomistLoris @ECWIHS @EliLake @alissacooper @asymmetricinfo @nanswift @katieharbath @MattPerault @SL_Schaeffer @SpenceKjell…
"We want to take what we've learned in a social media context and apply it in a gen AI context" — @alissacooper
.@alissacooper of @knightgtown emphasizes the need to think upstream about speech, platforms, and AI governance because: “In the world of content moderation, we have lost the war.” Many calories spent in content moderation - need to look elsewhere. @RSI
Next up at @RSI’s Real Solutions Summit is @katieharbath of Anchor Change moderating a conversation between @alissacooper of Knight-Georgetown Institute, @MattPerault of Andresen Horowitz, and @SpenceKjell from our Technology and Innovation team on how to — or not to — govern AI.
.@katieharbath @alissacooper @MattPerault @SpenceKjell off to a great start discussing How to Govern AI at @RSI ‘s Real Solutions Summit
Throughout May, help strengthen Tor's independence from profit-driven influence. 💜 We're aiming to raise $75,000 to keep building the tools that protect your privacy and help millions access the open internet. 😤✊ torproject.org/donate/donate-…
It was indeed striking for a witness to begin by saying Chrome does not drive revenue and end by admitting that it does, in “XL” size.
All week, Google has talked about how Chrome is part of its commitment to a better web, but their browser is just a vehicle for expanding search and making more ad money. #USvGoogle #antitrust
🤔Is there a better approach to creating better social media algorithms than an outright ban on personalized feeds? Our Executive Director @alissacooper was featured on @JoinFAI's The Dynamist podcast to help answer this question... [thread]
The #USvGoogle trial about how to remedy Google's online search monopoly wraps up its 1st week. This trial is significant in that it has the potential to drastically transform online search, hopefully leading to a more competitive & vibrant online information environment [thread]
We're excited to announce that Ramesh Nagarajan, counsel to @senatecommerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media, will be joining us as a panelist for our event "Designing the Digital Platform Commission" on April 28!
Now Google’s lawyer misconstrues the government’s user-side data remedies by saying the AOL query log release did “not include personal information” alongside queries, but that release included numerical user IDs — which today should be well understood as personal data.
Grateful to @justinhendrix and Dean Jackson for the opportunity to join the @techpolicypress podcast alongside professionals I deeply admire, @alissacooper, @anubradford and Gunn Jiravuttipong. Happy Sunday listening! player.captivate.fm/episode/373d8f…