Today, as officials from Amazon, Google, Twitter, and Apple prepare to testify to the Senate Commerce Committee on consumer data privacy, Niam Yaraghi of UConn’s School of Business, shares his views on regulating free speech on social media.<\/p>\n
“I think we should trust more in the consumer and their ability to understand the risks of using social media,” says Yaraghi,\u00a0assistant professor of operations and information management, who writes about technology innovation for\u00a0the Brookings Institution<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yaraghi expands on his comments\u00a0in an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0for the Brookings Institution.<\/p>\n “The calls for regulating social media and technology companies are politically motivated,” he writes. “Social media companies are all private businesses with discretion over the content they wish to promote, and any effort by government to influence what social media platforms promote risks violating the First Amendment.” Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the Senate Commerce Committee prepares to take testimony on consumer data privacy today, Niam Yaraghi of UConn discusses the subject of regulating social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":141960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1862,174,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1927],"class_list":["post-141887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-busn","category-uconn-stamford","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 05:19:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141887"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142847,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141887\/revisions\/142847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/141960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141887"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=141887"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=141887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}