The Knight Foundation Puts Millions Into Researching Internet Governance

Funds will go to colleges and think tanks researching these issues

The Knight Foundation is investing more than $3.5 million in various research projects that will dig into how the internet, and in particular social media, is governed.

The nonprofit John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will spread the funds among several research projects including: exploring the economic impacts of regulating digital platforms at Yale University and the Economic Security Project; legal research on the challenges associated with the platforms at the University of Iowa’s College of Law; and how speech is regulated on social media at Rutgers Law School’s Institute for Information Policy & Law.

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