Olivier Sylvain at Politics and Prose

March 18th 2026 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Politics and Prose at The Wharf
610 Water St SW
Washington, DC 20024

 

In Reclaiming the Internet, Olivier Sylvain, a leading legal scholar and former senior advisor at the Federal Trade Commission, exposes the incentives behind social media design, revealing how they trap users in cycles of addiction, misinformation, and harm.

“Sylvain meticulously exposes how a handful of corporations hide ruthless systems of surveillance, addiction, and commercial exploitation behind legal and cultural myths around neutrality and free expression.”
—Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Law School, author of Break ’Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom From Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money

 

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