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Josh Hammer

Josh Hammer is opinion editor of Newsweek, host of the Josh Hammer Show, a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, and counsel and policy adviser for the Internet Accountability Project. Twitter: @josh_hammer.
Articles by Josh Hammer

Small Media, Big Tech, and the “Partiality” Imperative

It has been about two years since Australia enacted its much-disputed News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) legislation. That new dispensation Down Under requires hegemonic Big Tech platforms to remunerate local Aussie media outlets, in straightforward enough fashion, for the right to post and disseminate an outlet’s substantive content on a technology platform. The motivating idea…

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Amazon?

America’s third-largest company by market capitalization has filled the shoes of predecessors like Standard Oil, Sears, and General Electric as an epoch-defining corporation. Indeed, offering enhanced consumer convenience, Amazon now defines an entire way of life. Amazon’s profits soared nearly 200 percent last year as its national fulfillment infrastructure and rapid Prime delivery serviced a lockdown-stricken and home-confined populace. But in spite of its achievement of seamless logistics, Amazon’s dramatic surge has been neither victimless nor costless…

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