Olivier Sylvain at UCLA Law
From Social Media Addiction Trials to Reclaiming the Internet – Olivier Sylvain in Conversation
On behalf of the UCLA School of Law and Samueli School of Engineering, the Institute for Technology, Law & Policy welcomes Professor Olivier Sylvain for a conversation about the biggest fights in tech.
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
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Los Angeles, CA 90095
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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