Syagnik Banerjee

Professor of marketing, University of Michigan, US

Professor of marketing, University of Michigan, US

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Stories by the author

• Securing the New Silk Route: Why India must build digital sovereignty

  
  08 Sep 2025 11:33 PM IST
• Under the sea, for sake of strategy: Why foreign powers hold India’s digital pulse

  
  11 Aug 2025 10:54 PM IST
• Land of the free, conditions apply: How US clampdown on students and universities threatens free speech

  
  02 Jun 2025 11:25 PM IST
• To safeguard digital sovereignty, India should nurture local talent & firms while forging tie-ups with Big Tech

  
  23 Mar 2025 11:31 PM IST
• Count down as the Tok Tiks: Can a TikTok ban really solve America’s bigger problems?

  
  22 Jan 2025 10:43 PM IST
• Why facts held Mark Zuckerberg's Meta back

  
  15 Jan 2025 11:16 PM IST
• Did social media and govt collude to create pandemic panic? New report raises alarming questions

  
  15 Dec 2024 11:05 PM IST
• Australia takes on social media: Banning kids under 16, setting a global precedent?

  
  22 Nov 2024 10:55 PM IST
• AI leading us up the garden path? The implications of surveillance & the quest for control

  
  07 Oct 2024 10:57 PM IST
• View: Govt must force Google to create a separate legal entity entirely located within India

  
  20 Aug 2024 11:24 PM IST
• How to prevent Big Tech dominance, protect privacy and ensure fair competition

  
  6 mins read13 Jun 2024
• India must loosen the cords tying it too tightly to the pervasive influence of global Big Tech

  
  6 mins read23 May 2024
• Are Meta and GoI really tussling over encryption? Or are we watching covert mutualism at play?

  
  6 mins read1 May 2024
• Problem with LLM believers

  
  6 mins read4 Mar 2024
• OpenAI and its discontents: Why countries need laws to combat AI exploitation

  
  6 mins read18 Jan 2024
• Why Elon Musk's move to charge for using X may be a good, disruptive thing

  
  6 mins read24 Sep 2023
• Generative AI like ChatGPT is creating waves, but is it crippling our ability to process knowledge?

  
  6 mins read19 May 2023
• View: Why it is necessary to check the market power of digital platforms like Facebook

  
  6 mins read26 Dec 2022
• Why regulation is the only way to rein in monopolistic power of Big Tech

  
  6 mins read15 Nov 2022
• How Twitter may actually end up serving public interest in a radical manner

  
  7 mins read28 Apr 2022
• Why Zuckerberg’s claim that volatile content can’t be pushed for profit doesn’t hold

  
  6 mins read6 Oct 2021
• View: The great Indian social media circus and threat of digital giants

  
  6 mins read30 Jun 2021
• View: Making sense of the standoff between govt and WhatsApp over new IT rules

  
  6 mins read28 May 2021
• WhatsApp's privacy policy: Hidden is not private

  
  6 mins read13 May 2021