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Reasons to celebrate Trump's return to Facebook
Meta's reinstatement of Trump's accounts show the power of self-regulatory organizations.
Will Rinehart
Feb 21
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January 2023
Population growth is stalling. Here is what it means for politics and economics.
Aging demographics will mean less creative destruction, fewer startups, misallocation, and increased pressure on political and social institutions.
Will Rinehart
Jan 24
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Population growth is stalling. Here is what it means for politics and economics.
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October 2022
The abundance agenda
Context to my recent Boston Review piece, the Henry Adams curve, and a list of action items to make the abundance agenda happen
Will Rinehart
Oct 15, 2022
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July 2022
The attention economy: a history of the term, its economics, its value, and how it is changing politics
Work your way to the end. I explain why TikTok users value the site by $5,600 per year and why the politics of attention explains Cambridge Analytica…
Will Rinehart
Jul 20, 2022
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April 2022
To unleash progress, excessive vetoes need to be restrained
Too many actors have veto rights over what gets built, slowing development and progress. We need to get serious about solving it.
Will Rinehart
Apr 7, 2022
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March 2022
As if we needed more evidence there's a privacy-competition tradeoff
Meta's bad quarter underscores the disproportionality in digital markets, small changes on privacy can have outsized impacts on competition
Will Rinehart
Mar 3, 2022
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November 2021
A progress report on the Emergency Broadband Benefit program
As part of a larger analysis of this program, I just released new county-level data alongside two maps that break down what's happening.
Will Rinehart
Nov 5, 2021
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October 2021
This one simple regulation will solve every teen's problems online
The Senate hauled in Facebook to explains its research on teens. At some point, we will need to admit that our problems are partly caused by…
Will Rinehart
Oct 8, 2021
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August 2021
The just say no campaign was a good idea. It just should have been applied to social media and called tethics.
exformation 8 | Space capitalism + a dive into the infrastructure bill + more
Will Rinehart
Aug 27, 2021
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July 2021
There might be too much advertising, but not for the reasons you think
exformation #7 | An infrastructure deal is struck, President Biden pulls back comments that social media sites are killing people, Sen Klobuchar files a…
Will Rinehart
Jul 30, 2021
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There might be too much advertising, but not for the reasons you think
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The 15 hour workweek is a dream in search of economic roots
The FTC is changing, big tech isn't a monolith, iOS 14.5 shifts the ad ecosystem + much more
Will Rinehart
Jul 19, 2021
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This house believes in science and so it believes in human challenge trials
exformation #5 | Trump sues Twitter and Facebook, President Biden drops a new EO on competition, Dourado tackles geothermal, and much more.
Will Rinehart
Jul 13, 2021
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