“Defending Digital” Series

ITIF’s ongoing Defending Digital series, authored by David Moschella, examines popular criticisms, complaints, and policy indictments against the tech industry to assess their validity, correct factual errors, and debunk outright myths. Our goal in this series is not to defend tech reflexively or categorically, but to scrutinize widely echoed claims that are driving the most consequential debates in tech policy. Before enacting new laws and regulations, it’s important to ask: Do these claims hold water?

• Issue 6: “The Power of Big Tech Peaked During the Pandemic; Disruptive Forces Are on the Rise,” June 1, 2022.
• Issue 5: “AI Bias Is Correctable. Human Bias? Not So Much,” April 25, 2022.
• Issue 4: “Your Data Isn’t Gold; It’s Not Even Yours,” April 1, 2022.
• Issue 3: “Theory Aside, Antitrust Advocates Should Keep Their ‘Big Tech’ Ambitions Narrow,” March 7, 2022.
• Issue 2: “Technology Has Created Much More Privacy Than It Has Destroyed. Let’s Keep It That Way,” February 1, 2022.
• Issue 1: “It’s Not Just Facebook—‘Old Media’ Spreads Misinformation, Too,” January 10, 2022.
  

More issues to come.