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April 29, 2025
Policy Analysis

No. 995
Content Creators, Entrepreneurial Users, and the Impact of Tech Policy
The availability of platforms to lower barriers to sharing information or creating a business has empowered a new wave of entrepreneurs who might never reach household fame but who are contributing both to their own households and the greater economy.
By Jennifer Huddleston
October 8, 2024
White Paper

Cato Handbook on Executive Orders and Presidential Directives
Executive orders and other presidential directives that conflict with the principles of individual liberty, free markets, limited government, peace, and the American Constitution should be revoked or amended by the next president.
By Alex Nowrasteh
July 16, 2024
Briefing Paper

No. 178
Artificial Intelligence Regulation Threatens Free Expression
With AI set to impact so much of our lives, the decisions over what kinds of speech AI should or should not be allowed to generate will likely become far greater battles than those fought over social media content policies.
By David Inserra
May 21, 2024
Policy Analysis

No. 974
A Guide to Content Moderation for Policymakers
While prominent social media platforms may be biased and imperfect, the government cannot solve these problems and will only make them worse.
By David Inserra
March 28, 2024
Briefing Paper

No. 176
Courts Should Affirm First Amendment Rights of Youths in the Digital Age: The Case for a 21st–Century Tinker
Legislation designed to keep young people safe may create significant limitations on their rights to free expression and the opportunities such speech can provide.
By Jennifer Huddleston
February 21, 2024
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 371
The Consequences of CIA-Sponsored Regime Change in Latin America
By Samuel Absher, Robin Grier, and Kevin Grier
October 10, 2023
Briefing Paper

No. 169
What the United States Can Learn from the UK’s Struggle to Deregulate Post-Brexit
The recent history of post-Brexit British legislation and attempts at deregulation provide lessons on how difficult it is to build such a regulatory regime, with deregulation having its own costs and businesses seeking regulatory assurances.
By Matthew Feeney
October 3, 2023
Briefing Paper

No. 168
Shining a Light on Censorship: How Transparency Can Curtail Government Social Media Censorship and More
As Ray Bradbury observed, “There is more than one way to burn a book,” and recent experience demonstrates that the same is true of government censorship.
By Andrew M. Grossman and Kristin A. Shapiro
September 13, 2023
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 349
Man versus Machine: Technological Promise and Political Limits of Automated Regulation Enforcement
By Oliver Browne, Ludovica Gazze, Michael Greenstone, & Olga Rostapshova
August 14, 2023
Policy Analysis

No. 956
A Link Tax Won’t Save the Newspaper Industry
Those with an interest in small, efficient, and honest government have good reason to lament the decline of the local newspaper industry.
By Paul Matzko
June 20, 2023
Briefing Paper

No. 160
Improving Youth Online Safety without Sacrificing Privacy and Speech
Currently proposed policy approaches are overly blunt tools that will cause more harm than good.
By Jennifer Huddleston
May 2, 2023
Policy Analysis

No. 945
The Right to Financial Privacy
Financial privacy in the United States has been in disrepair for more than 50 years.
By Nicholas Anthony
April 6, 2023
Briefing Paper

No. 150
Would New Legislation Actually Make Kids Safer Online?
Many young people have found supportive communities online that they may struggle to replicate in the offline world.
By Jennifer Huddleston
September 12, 2022
Policy Analysis

No. 934
Jawboning against Speech
Government officials use informal pressure — bullying, threatening, and cajoling — to sway the decisions of private platforms and limit the publication of disfavored speech. The use of this informal pressure, known as jawboning, is growing.
By Will Duffield
February 24, 2022
Briefing Paper

No. 136
The “Big Tech” Self-Preferencing Delusion
The AICO bill would generally make it unlawful for major online platforms to engage in conduct that has produced tech products that consumers enjoy.
By Ryan Bourne and Brad Subramaniam

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Spring 2025

Content Creators, Entrepreneurial Users, and the Impact of Tech Policy

Cato Handbook on Executive Orders and Presidential Directives

Artificial Intelligence Regulation Threatens Free Expression

A Guide to Content Moderation for Policymakers

Courts Should Affirm First Amendment Rights of Youths in the Digital Age: The Case for a 21st–Century Tinker

The Consequences of CIA-Sponsored Regime Change in Latin America

What the United States Can Learn from the UK’s Struggle to Deregulate Post-Brexit

Shining a Light on Censorship: How Transparency Can Curtail Government Social Media Censorship and More

Man versus Machine: Technological Promise and Political Limits of Automated Regulation Enforcement

A Link Tax Won’t Save the Newspaper Industry

Improving Youth Online Safety without Sacrificing Privacy and Speech

The Right to Financial Privacy

Would New Legislation Actually Make Kids Safer Online?

Jawboning against Speech

The “Big Tech” Self-Preferencing Delusion