Olivier Sylvain at Yale Law

In this talk, Olivier will build on arguments he's made in a chapter from his new book, Reclaiming the Internet, as well as his article, “Middleware and the Illusory Promise of End-User Control” in the recent ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science volume on Platform Governance.

This event is open to the Yale Law School community only.

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

Learn more about Reclaiming the Internet