Media and Public Trust: Fighting Misinformation and Repairing Trust through Market Design with Marshall Van Alstyne
Can we curb misinformation without censorship by redesigning the incentives that govern speech? Drawing on insights from market design, Marshall Van Alstyne’s research reframes misinformation as a pollution problem rather than one of falsity per se. When false or misleading claims create externalities, markets fail; when those costs can be internalized through voluntary, decentralized exchange, […]