Frank Pasquale

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For search and social, Google and Facebook are inarguably two of the most powerful companies on the planet. File photograph: Getty Images
Data power could make 1984 ‘look like a Teddy bear’s picnic’

We don’t search online, we “google”, so it is no surprise that Google has over 77 per cent of the search engine market, while the nearest competitor i(...)

Frank Pasquale: “Facebook and Google are effectively the regulators but acting in ways without public accountability”
How fake news is destroying transparency on the internet

Many of the early, optimistic assumptions about how the internet would create a public sphere with greater openness, transparency and accuracy have be(...)