Publications
Facebook has become "one of the world's most dangerous monopolies" and needs to be dismantled, Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller tells CBC's The Current podcast. In light of a groundbreaking op-ed by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes on The New York Times, CBC interviews Miller about Facebook's monopoly power and why US regulators should move to hold Mark Zuckerberg accountable and break-up the corporation.
Read MoreUber hit the stock market May 10. NPR reported its value may reach 90 billion dollars, But its ultimate market value could face headwinds with the populist movement rising in America. NPR speaks to Open Markets fellow Matt Stoller about Uber's bigness and whether it could be subject to antitrust in the future.
Read MoreThe New York Times talks to Open Markets Institute fellow Matt Stoller about the rumored $3 to 5 billion dollar fine the Federal Trade Commission intends to levy against Facebook. His quote describing the fine as a "parking-ticket-level penalty" made the NYT's Quote of the Day.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute fellow Matt Stoller makes The New York Times' Quotation of the Day on Apr. 24, 2019: “This would be a joke of a fine — a two-weeks-of-revenue, parking-ticket-level penalty for destroying democracy.”
Read MoreDavid Dayen reports the story of Shaoul Sussman, a law student at Fordham University, who may be able to prove Amazon profitably engages in predatory pricing. “It’s long overdue for a rethinking of predatory pricing,” says Open Markets Institute fellow Matt Stoller.
Read MoreMotherboard 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.
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