Niall MacMenamin

We thank Bill Kluender and Donovan Kaddis for providing outstanding research assistance and Lars Sørgård for helpful comments. This RCT was registered as AEARCTR-0016397 (Goodman et al., 2026). The authors worked on behalf of Meta in connection with the antitrust litigation Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc., and Klein et al v. Meta Platforms, Inc., and received financial compensation in the form of consulting fees.

Law360 (September 3, 2019, 5:38 PM EDT) -- In the last few years, the sharing economy has undergone rapid and profound growth, and with it has come a corresponding growth in legal challenges.[1] Courts have recently wrestled with matters arising from online activities on internet platforms such as Airbnb Inc., Uber Technologies Inc., Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and StubHub Inc. These platforms have faced lawsuits related to their roles in allegedly wrongful conduct carried out by their users.