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Is it time to regulate social media platforms and search engines?

Season 3, Ep. 26

On this week’s episode of the TechTank Podcast, moderator Darrell West, Vice President of Governance

Studies at the Brookings Institution, will discuss if it's time for the Supreme Court to regulate social

media platforms and the search engines that have become prominent amongst society. To help with this

conversation, the Podcast is happily joined by John Villasenor, a Professor of Engineering, Law, and

Public Policy at UCLA and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings. Mark MacCarthy is a Senior Fellow

at the Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy at Georgetown University and a Nonresident Senior

Fellow at Brookings.

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