Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement concerning the news that President Trump has moved to fire Democratically-appointed Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter:
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley commends the Supreme Court's TikTok divestiture decision but calls for broader regulation of surveillance-driven platform business models to protect democracy and privacy.
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The Center for Journalism and Liberty welcomes the publication of a landmark report, “Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy” by the Observatory on Information and Democracy. This landmark document analyzes the most current academic research on information ecosystems and their impact on democracies worldwide.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan’s new book!
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan appeared on a lunch talk hosted by LPE Project to discuss his forthcoming book, Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
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Executive director Barry Lynn appears on Keen on arguing that that big tech monopolies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft pose the greatest threat to American democracy, requiring urgent antitrust action to safeguard freedom
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Barry Lynn authors Harper's October 2024 cover story, "The Antitrust Revolution: Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech."
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan gave an interview to PlayerFM’s podcast Money on the Left to discuss his upcoming book Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn testified on June 5, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. EST before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights at a hearing entitled “Strengthening U.S. Economic Leadership: The Role of Competition in Enhancing Economic Resiliency."
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Executive director Barry Lynn spoke at the 2024 Stigler Antitrust Conference at the University of Chicago, which focused on “Antitrust, Regulation and the Diffusion of Innovation.” Lynn participated in a panel titled “The End of the Beginning for the Antimonopoly Movement?,” along with Zephyr Teachout, Cristina Caffarra, Matt Stoller, and Sohrab Ahmari.
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CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch discusses the EU’s recently published AI Act in efforts to resuscitate and instill legal and ethical standards for AI.
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CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch shines a light on the struggles journalism is facing as AI develops further.
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On Monday, February 26th, the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute will host a webinar bringing together leading experts to discuss approaches to determining the value of news and the future of journalism in the digital age.
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CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch highlights Big Tech’s celebrations for AI, and how it’s time to demand accountability for the harms tech has caused before they wreak further havoc.
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CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch discusses new legislation in California that may allow for newsroom advantages over Big Tech.
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Strategic councilor Caroline Fredrickson was also quoted in a Jacobin article about how the Federalist Society and George Mason University are both closely tied to the conservative legal movement and billionaire donors who have a financial interest in how the federal judiciary interprets laws.
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U.S. News and World Report quoted Caroline Fredrickson, OMI’s strategic councilor on democracy and power, on the Supreme Court’s influence on elections.
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CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch highlights the internal developments of OpenAI and the confrontations between the firm and Microsoft’s poaching practices.
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