This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The internet empowers us to educate ourselves ...

In the early days of the internet, a commonly-heard mantra was “information wants to be free.” To many, this meant no charges should be imposed for either the use of data and information or their ...

In this paper, we study a monopolistic market for an information good possessing external effects, and investigate how far the information good is diffused from its owner to demanders through trades.

One day in the fall of 2019, as I sat on a beach in Brazil, I heard the distant sound of hands clapping. Not the raucous clapping of a beach party—this was the concentrated, intentional sound of a ...

Good Information, which claims it will fund companies that fight the crisis in disinformation plaguing the media, launched Tuesday with backing from billionaires including Reid Hoffman and George ...