Marshall Van Alstyne
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Marshall Van Alstyne
@infoecon.bsky.social
Interested in human side of information, economics, social & tech.

Questrom Professor Boston University. Digital Fellow MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Visiting Scholar Harvard Berkman-Klein.

Leap on in! The water is fine.
New working paper on reducing fraud and deception by AI agents using mechanism design. Comments are very welcome.

Market Design Interventions for Safer Agentic AI aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/gen...
October 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Someone ready to march!
October 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
New report ranks LI, Insta, FB, YouTube, TikTok & X for prevalence and monetization of misinformation
science.feedback.org/first-measur...
September 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The summary of the MIT Platform Summit is now available ide.mit.edu/publication-... @mitsloanphd.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
BU Platform Summit July 15 features great rsch on social media, using AI to build platforms, decentralization, M&A strategies, robo taxis...

$1000 best paper prize.

Program: questromworld.bu.edu/platformstra...

Registration: questromworld.bu.edu/platformstra...

We look forward to seeing you!
June 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The MIT Platform Summit is here this July. See speakers and registration at platforms.mit.edu @g2parker.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Internet users can seek out interactions with like-minded individuals who have similar values and become less likely to trust important decisions to people whose values differ from their own. Published 2005 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ji0n0...
@erikbryn.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS
12th Annual Platform Research Symposium
Boston University Questrom School of Business
July 14-15, 2025
Submissions Due: April 11, 2025

Submit your best platform research at platforms.bu.edu

$1000 Alessandro di Fiore Best Paper prize #platforms #strategy #conference #AI #Governance
January 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
We had great drinks and great cheer to celebrate end of term and progress on great fake news research. @swapneel.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social
December 14, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Social, mobile, and hearing the voice of God - from a church in France
December 7, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Here's our family pet helping with the Thanksgiving turkey
November 29, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Bittersweet visit to USC. I got to see good friend Georgios Petropoulos. Also saw philosophy library where my Dad studied. Dad passed just before covid
November 24, 2024 at 7:22 PM
If you've never been to Antelope Canyon or Horseshoe Bend let me strongly recommend them
November 20, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Antelope Canyon
November 20, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Horseshoe Bend
November 20, 2024 at 5:18 PM
I'm just coming over from X-Twitter after the election and already it feels cleaner over here at Bluesky
November 20, 2024 at 5:18 PM