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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 29/09/2026

Deadline: 30 November 2026 Details and submission: newcompetitionschool.com/ncs-award-fo... Academics, please pass this on to your students and recent grads!

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 29/09/2026

Co-authored pieces are welcome, and interdisciplinary teams are especially encouraged. Lawyers and economists writing together would be ideal.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 29/09/2026

Jury: Barry Lynn (@openmarkets.bsky.social), Kati Cseres (@katicseres.bsky.social, University of Amsterdam), Alberto Alemanno (@alemanno.bsky.social, HEC Paris) and Ramsha Jahangir (@ramshajahangir.bsky.social, Tech Policy Press).

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 29/09/2026

The winner and up to three runners-up will be edited and published by Tech Policy Press, where they'll be read by policymakers, regulators, journalists and the public.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 29/09/2026

Write 800–1500 words on either: a) a case where an opportunity for a structural remedy was missed, or b) how real-world abusive conduct affected consumers, suppliers, or rivals trying to compete fairly

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 29/09/2026

In EU competition law, structural remedies are almost never used, even where market power is plainly structural and behavioural remedies are likely to fail.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 29/09/2026

Calling all competition law students (and the academics who support them): the New Competition School is launching a blog post competition with Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)! 🧵 newcompetitionschool.com/ncs-award-fo...

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 27/08/2026

The US State Department has designated A/I, a small Italian provider of open source infrastructure for political activists, as a global terrorist group. They will reach into our very homes to grab us — if we let them. www.state.gov/releases/off...

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Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of State

Today, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is what the billionaire press and many politicians were campaigning so hard to destroy. Their freedom to drive took precedence over our children's freedom to thrive. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Luise Quaritsch @luisequaritsch.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

Today, the Commission fined Google €890 million for two breaches of the Digital Markets Act. One decision concerns Google's self-preferencing on Search (€460 mio.) and the other Google Playstore's anti-steering policies (€430 mio.). digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/commission-f...

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Commission fines Google €890 million for breaches of the Digital Markets Act

Today, the European Commission took two decisions finding non-compliance by Google with the DMA for self-preferencing its own services on Google Search, and for putting in place restrictions on busine...

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Lights out and away we go! #Clacton

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026

Technologists interested in promoting the public good: come forward! As @todddavi.es - explains, technology is broad - @yvesalexandre.bsky.social agrees

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 21/05/2026

It did. It's going to be an interesting few years from a competition law point of view!

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 30/04/2026

Alternate headline: "Tech bro discovers that non-tech people can be smart too."

Screenshot from a BBC news article with the headline "Musk accuses OpenAI lawyer of trying to 'trick' him in combative testimony".

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 14/04/2026

Yep, that would make sense. Not sure what competition law can do in that case. I'll have a think :)

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 14/04/2026

Huh, interesting. I don't get that at all. I guess we're in different experiment groups. Thanks for the heads up, I'll keep this in mind with future work :)

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 14/04/2026

Thanks - I've not seen Google doing that, but I believe you that it has. Google transitioning its search engine over to AI mode might also be illegal under competition law too. Its certainly a more complex case though, and I've not thought about it enough to have a good opinion yet.

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SeaYou #FBPE 🇪🇺 @seayou.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

What a cover ! We need a strong 🇪🇺 NOW ! #Europe

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 13/04/2026

The the full, open-access paper is out now. Thoughts & comments welcome! doi.org/10.1093/jecl...

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 13/04/2026

Second, it could be counterproductive! It could reduce the quality of AI Overviews, lead to misattribution of content, let Google continue to free-ride others' content, cause political bias, further undermine small independent publishers (important for democracy), and harm the autonomy of users.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 13/04/2026

First, it wouldn't protect the business models of websites and it wouldn't give them more *meaningful* choice over how their content is used.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 13/04/2026

Spencer Cohen and I have a paper out in the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice exploring this issue (link below). We argue that forcing Google to let websites opt-out of appearing in AI Overviews would be an ineffective response.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 13/04/2026

The bad news is that their focus has been on letting websites opt-out of having their content appear in AI Overviews, not on the systemic issue of Google undermining their business models by 'hoarding' traffic on its own site.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 13/04/2026

The good news is that competition authorities have taken notice. The EU Commission and the UK's CMA have both been on Google's case over AI Overviews.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 13/04/2026

People read the AI Overview and don't go to the sites that produced the information in the first place: newspapers, recipe sites, niche blogs, etc. As a result, Google has begun to undermine the business model of the free and open web, which depends on traffic to generate revenue and survive.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 13/04/2026

Since Google started putting AI Overviews at the top of its search results, traffic to websites all around the world has plummeted. This is a problem. 🧵

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM

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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 20/03/2026

Yes. That’s the way forward!

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Friendly Neighborhood Transsexual @icanfly42.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Not entirely on topic but I wish people understood that a lot of what "agents" supposedly do would be almost trivially easy if these companies just had open APIs like they used to! Instead we're burning the planet so LLMs can crawl through websites and apps, its crazy!

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Not really the point, but I appreciate that Frank's Zoom background makes it feel like he's appeared to you during an ayahuasca vision to deliver this message.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 29/01/2026

I'm analysing the Commission's Google AdTech Decision and finding it exceedingly difficult because of the _insane_ number of redactions. There are 4904 redactions yet only 2247 paragraphs in the whole thing. Seriously?!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13/01/2026

"Machine Learning" and "Artificial Neural Networks," not LLM or GPT type "generative AI"

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Academics - if you are expert in the history of the fourth amendment, today is a day you could pitch your favorite news outlet with a piece about it. If you're interested, do a little writing, then email me lollardfish at gmail and I'll give you some free op-ed coaching.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 12/01/2026

A paper I wrote (on platform regulation & democracy) got nominated for the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards! I wrote a short blog post explaining it here: todddavi.es/2026-concurr... There's a public vote to determine "reader's choice" so please take a look & vote it you're interested :)

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 10/01/2026

I finally deleted my account on X today. If you haven't already, this is a reminder :) It feels good!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot

The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Five years ago.

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Anyway, it's hard to see how this makes the US more secure. And I can't help looking at the pictures of this massive naval deployment and thinking about how much it cost relative to giving Ukraine what it needs to defend itself. 10/10

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

🔥 This is huge 🔥 NEW YouGov poll: British are now MORE pro-EU than France or Italy. 👉 50% would vote to be in the EU 👉 Only 31% want to stay out 👉 Strip away don’t knows 👉62–38 in favour of EU membership. 🔥 Brexit is no more and Parliament must catch up! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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British voters want to be part of EU more than French and Italians, poll reveals

Exclusive: Campaigners said Labour had to ‘catch up with public opinion’ as PM faces calls for closer ties to the EU after Brexit

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 02/01/2026

Oh this sounds excellent, can't wait!

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 02/01/2026

TIL that "Podcast" is derived from the words "iPod" and "broadcast". 🎙️

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 01/01/2026

Good luck! Cutting caffeine was brutal for me in the first week (currently a month in and feeling great by now).

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 30/12/2025

Generative AI is having huge effects all across society. But how is it changing competition law and its enforcement? I was invited onto the Our Curious Amalgam podcast of the American Bar Association to discuss, and the episode came out yesterday: todddavi.es/blog/the-fut...

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Todd Davies | The Future of Enforcement and Compliance? How Computational Antitrust is Used

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 11/12/2025

I'm in Tech Policy Press today exploring the intersection of competition law and tech expertise. Who are tech experts? What do they know? And how might competition regulators use them best in an increasingly digital economy? www.techpolicy.press/who-are-tech... @techpolicypress.bsky.social

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Who are Tech Experts and What Can They Bring to Competition Enforcement? | TechPolicy.Press

Tech experts are playing an increasingly large role in competition enforcement, writes Todd Davies. But who are these experts, and what are they experts in?

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