Publications
Should we break up Amazon and Facebook? Columbia Law School academic and Open Markets senior fellow Lina Khan, who wrote the impactful “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” for The Yale Law Journal, joins Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel to discuss whether Amazon and Facebook should be broken up and what it might look like if that were to happen.
Read MoreThe Guardian's David Smith reports on how the left and the right are united in the pursuit of greater accountability and transparency from Silicon Valley’s power players. He talks to Open Markets fellow Matt Stoller about how big tech is bringing together conservatives’ anti-monopoly streak with progressives’ suspicion of big business and wealth inequality.
Read MoreGizmodo's Kashmir Hill published a series about giving up the 'Big Five' tech platforms. In this piece she looks into the challenge of giving up Facebook and take us on her journey. She talks to Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller about Facebook's power and her work in the coalition, Freedom From Facebook.
Read MoreLegal Director Sandeep Vaheesan is quoted in The Intercept by David Dayen arguing that opinions about alcohol market regulation are besides the point; in plain fact, states have been empowered with oversight over alcohol.
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reports that Open Markets Institute is part of a coalition calling on the Federal Trade Commission to break up Facebook.
Read MoreBloomberg's Mark Bergen and Ben Brody receive comment from Open Markets' Matt Stoller about Google's monopoly power amid the company facing Congressional hearings and greater public scrutiny. Limits on Google’s control of so much data would be a blow, says Stoller.
Read MoreOpen Markets Fellow Austin Frerick discusses the newly-released concentration crisis data with The Intercept.
Read MoreOpen Markets Senior Fellow Lina Khan talks to Anand Ghiridhardas at The New Yorker about Amazon and how it has gained leverage in its search for a new city for its new headquarters.
Read MoreOpen Markets' Matt Stoller tells Nicholas Confessore and Matthew Rosenberg of The New York Times that the exposes on the tech giants, Facebook and Google, have led to a serious loss of credibility in the companies and a "serious policy problem" for the Democrats.
Read MoreOpen Markets' Deputy Director Sarah Miller tells The New Yorker's Evan Osnos that “Congress and the Federal Trade Commission should come to terms with the fact that Facebook will never change, unless they force it to—and they should, without delay, to protect our democracy.”
Read MoreOpen Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan is quoted on POLITICO’s Morning Tech on the Federal Trade Commission’s hearing on “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.”
Read MoreOpen Markets senior fellow Lina Khan is profiled by David Streitfield for The New York Times. Khan talks about her work on antitrust, Amazon and how she went against a consensus in antitrust circles that dates back to the 1970s.
Read MoreSandeep Vaheesan was quoted in the Atlantic explaining how Amazon's power hurts workers and wages.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute is mentioned in this article as an example to draw a clear distinction between socialists and the anti-monopoly movement, which promotes greater competition.
Read MoreSarah Miller, Deputy Director, spoke on behalf of the Freedom From Facebook Coalition about Facebook's massive market value drop.
Read MorePhil and Barry were quoted in Joe Nocera's piece explaining that any antitrust action directed at the tech giants is tainted by the president's tweets.
Read MoreSarah said Freedom from Facebook plans to fight Facebook for as long as it takes to bring about change and that the health of democracy depends on it.
Read More"My general point that no one should be doing the filtering of news for 2.1 billion people. But Mark Zuckerberg defending the sincerity of Holocaust deniers suggests that we may have picked the single worst person to do what is an impossible job." - Matt Stoller
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