Matthew Gentzkow is Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He studies empirical industrial organization and political economy, with a specific focus on media industries. He received the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal, given by the American Economic Association to the American economist under the age of forty who has made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, several National Science Foundation grants for research on media, and a Faculty Excellence Award for teaching. He was educated at Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1997, a master's degree in 2002, and a PhD in 2004.

I study computational linguistics (natural language processing) and its application to the behavioral and social sciences. I am a past MacArthur Fellow and also write and teach about the language of food.

Daphne Keller is the Director of Platform Regulation at the Stanford Program in Law, Science, & Technology. Her academic, policy, and popular press writing focuses on platform regulation and Internet users'; rights in the U.S., EU, and around the world. Her recent work has focused on platform transparency, data collection for artificial intelligence, interoperability models, and “must-carry” obligations. She has testified before legislatures, courts, and regulatory bodies around the world on topics ranging from the practical realities of content moderation to copyright and data protection. She was previously Associate General Counsel for Google, where she had responsibility for the company’s web search products. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, Brown University, and Head Start.

SHORT PIECES

• The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform, Lawfare, other posts here
• Q&A with Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker
• Regulating Platform Risk and Design: ChatGPT Says the Quiet Part out Loud, Stanford Center for Internet and Society blog, other posts here

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

• Amplification and Its Discontents: Why Regulating the Reach of Online Speech is Hard
• Platform Transparency and the First Amendment
• Lawful but Awful? Control over Legal Speech by Platforms, Governments, and Internet Users
• The Right Tools: Europe’s Intermediary Liability Laws and the GDPR

POLICY PUBLICATIONS

• The Long Reach of Taamneh: Carriage and Removal Requirements for Internet Platforms
• Making Middleware Work
• Who Do You Sue?

FILINGS

• U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of Francis Fukuyama, NetChoice v. Moody (2024)
• U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief with ACLU, Gonzalez v. Google (2023)
• Comment to European Commission on data access under EU Digital Services Act
• U.S. Senate testimony on platform transparency

PUBLICATIONS LIST

Professor Berman joined the Stanford faculty in 1979. In 1982-83 he was a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard, and in 1988-89 he held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Berlin. In 1997 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany. Professor Berman is the editor of the journal Telos.

John Duchi is an assistant professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University, with graduate degrees from UC Berkeley and undergraduate degrees from Stanford. His work focuses on large scale optimization problems arising out of statistical and machine learning problems, robustness and uncertain data problems, and information theoretic aspects of statistical learning. He has won a number of awards and fellowships, including a best paper award at the International Conference on Machine Learning, an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship in Mathematics, and the Okawa Foundation Award.

Jennifer Pan is a Professor of Communication and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. Her research focuses on political communication and authoritarian politics. Pan uses experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity in China and other authoritarian regimes to answer questions about how autocrats perpetuate their rule. How political censorship, propaganda, and information manipulation work in the digital age. How preferences and behaviors are shaped as a result.

Her book, Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers (Oxford, 2020) shows how China's pursuit of political order transformed the country’s main social assistance program, Dibao, for repressive purposes. Her work has appeared in peer reviewed publications such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, and Science.

She graduated from Princeton University, summa cum laude, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Government.

Byron Reeves received a B.F.A. in graphic design from Southern Methodist University and his M.A. and a Ph.D. in communication from Michigan State University. Prior to joining Stanford in 1985, he taught at the University of Wisconsin where he was director of graduate studies and associate chair of the Mass Communication Research Center. He teaches courses in mass communication theory and research, with particular emphasis on psychological processing of interactive media. His research includes message processing, social cognition, and social and emotion responses to media, and has been published in books of collected studies as well as such journals as Human Communication Research, Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Broadcasting, and Journalism Quarterly. He is co-author of The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places (Cambridge University Press).

Stevens is an organizational sociologist with longstanding interests in the quantification of educational processes, alternative educational forms, and the formal organization of knowledge.