Publications
Motherboard reporter Rob Dozier reports on how industry association lobbying defanged the Illinois Keep Internet Devices Safe Act, which would have empowered average people to sue big companies for recording them without consent. He cites Open Markets fellow Matt Stoller for sharing the lobbying groups' statements on Twitter.
Read MoreThe Hill's Harper Neidig talks to Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard about Facebook CEP Mark Zuckerberg's call to regulate Internet giants and eyebrows raised by his proposals. “I think he’s trying to avoid what we really need, which is to stop the massive collection of data and to stop these algorithms that prioritize engagement and elevate the [harmful] content,” Hubbard told The Hill.
Read MoreAxios reporter Steve LeVine cited Open Markets' major agriculture policy brief in his report about farm bankruptcies in Iowa and how big business is bleeding the midwest.
Read MoreNBC News’ Benjy Sarlin reports on how the 2020 presidential contenders are taking up the antimonopoly call saying market concentration is harming the American economy.
Read MoreThe Columbia Journalism Review's Emily Bell reports on the impact of Big Tech on the media industry and why Facebook, Apple, and Google do things that journalists should be investigating, not profiting from. She references the conflict with Google by the Open Markets Initiative at the New America Foundation in her reporting.
Read MoreBloomberg's Josh Eidelson reports on Open Markets and its coalition members' petition to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ban non-compete clauses from employee contracts and speaks to Open Markets legal direct Sandeep Vaheesan and other signatories. Non-competes impact 30 million workers in America today.
Read MoreRolling Stone's Andy Kroll interviews Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn and the team about the Open Markets story, breaks the news on Open Markets Institute Action hosting an anti-trust forum in Iowa with 2020 Presidential Candidates, and reports on how Open Markets has put anti-monopoly at the center of the national conversation.
Read MoreMother Jones' Nihal Krishan reports on the U.S. government's failure to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger and how it could lead to even bigger monopolies. Open Markets fellow Matt Stoller tells him that the wording of the court opinion rejecting the DOJ’s case against AT&T and Time Warner left open wiggle room for future cases.
Read MoreOpen Markets fellow Matt Stoller offers his view of the Federal Trade Commission's new task force to monitor the tech giants to WIRED magazine. "They don’t want to do their No. 1 job," asserts Stoller. "Which is to police markets for unfair and anticompetitive behavior.”
Read MoreIn Part 3 of NPR Planet Money's antitrust series, Open Markets senior fellow Lina Khan discusses the "Amazon Antitrust Paradox." This podcast episode looks at the present, and toward a future where markets may be dominated by tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google.
Read MoreThe Huffington Post's Paul Blumenthal reports that the Obama years were boom times for the party’s cozy relationship with Big Tech, but the party is moving on. He gets Open Markets Institute fellow Matt Stoller's take on how "Nobody can say we need more Google in government.”
Read MoreThe Guardian's Alex Hern interviews Open Markets Institute advisory board member Roger McNamee on his new book, 'Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe' and his reflections from his time with Mark Zuckerberg and on the dangers of the Big Tech industry today.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute board member Zephyr Teachout published an op-ed on NBC News saying that people are fed up with big corporations bullying their employees and our elected officials. They're going to keep fighting back. She calls on Congress to examine Amazon's monopolistic actions.
Read MoreShould 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.
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