Publications
Axios reporter Sam Baker publishes an exclusive report on Open Markets' second volume of concentration data looking at consolidation in healthcare-related industry sectors. “America’s health care crisis is brought you by monopoly,” Open Markets policy director Phil Longman told Axios.
Read MoreThe Verge's Adi Robertson interviews Open Markets senior fellow Matt Stoller about how Google could be vulnerable to a U.S. Department of Justice probe. “The fact that Google is able to dominate the advertising market is quite dangerous,” says Matt Stoller.
Read MoreTIME reporter Alana Abramson reports that House lawmakers are kicking off their antitrust investigations of technology companies by focusing on an industry crippled by the rise of big tech: local journalism. She reports that Open Markets Institute Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard will testify at the first hearing along with Gene Kimmelman, the president of Public Knowledge, and David Chavern, the president of News Media Alliance, which represents 2,000 newspapers across the U.S. and Canada.
Read MoreDeutsche Welle interviews Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller about the shift in attitude by American lawmakers to Silicon Valley and how big tech is now on Washington's crosshairs. "These corporations were really the darlings of American commerce, and it's hard to believe, as someone who has been working on these issues for three or four years, how quickly that has changed, not just among progressives, but also among conservatives here in the US," she said.
Read MoreBloomberg's Naomi Nix reports on how the U.S. House panel conducting an antitrust investigation of technology companies is prepared to issue subpoenas as it begins by focusing on the impact of digital platforms on news media organizations. She also reported that Open Markets Institute Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard has been tapped to testify at the first hearing as a witness.
Read MoreAlexis C. Madrigal of The Atlantic writes that Big Tech on the left and right and highlights Open Markets Institute as among the new wave of antitrust scholars.
Read MoreThe New York Times speaks with Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller about antitrust enforcement in the U.S. as the House Judiciary Committee announced an official investigation scrutinizing the tech giants just hours after the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission were reported to be dividing jurisdiction over Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook. Compared to Europe and other regulators around the globe, “Federal enforcers have a lot of catching up to do,” said Miller.
Read MoreThe New York Times speaks to Executive Director Barry Lynn about the storm brewing around Big Tech as the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission divide jurisdiction over the largest corporations to enforce antitrust law. “Until we see what they intend to do, none of this means anything,” said Lynn. “Maybe they are simply blowing smoke so the president gets happy for a moment so they can go back to doing nothing.”
Read MoreOpen Markets' fellow Matt Stoller talks to the Observer about what breaking up Facebook would look like. “This isn’t rocket science,” Stoller told Observer. “The government should just hire an investment bank to break up the company. Then regulate the data practices and interoperability so that social networking is a neutral communications platform instead of a predatory one.”
Read MoreOpen Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller speaks with Fortune magazine's Luke Johnson about the growing consensus to break-up Facebook amid the debacle facing US regulators in tackling the problems created by big tech. “There has been a consensus built on this incredibly fast, faster than I would have imagined, given how popular Facebook was two or three years ago in Washington,” she told Fortune.
Read MoreBloomberg Law's Victoria Graham speaks to Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard about the recent decision by the Supreme Court in the Apple v. Pepper case and how the ruling clarifies another high court decision last year—Ohio v. American Express Co.—that set a difficult standard for bringing antitrust suits. The Apple case “makes it clear that the American Express decision was addressing a very specific type of platform,” Hubbard said. “It was not meant to cover all two sided markets.”
Read MoreThe New York Times speaks with Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan about the Supreme Court's ruling in Apple v. Pepper and what it means for consumers. “What Apple has done since the launch of the iPhone is tell all iPhone owners and iPhone app developers that if they want to buy and sell apps, they have to go through the App Store,” Vaheesan said. “So Apple has set up this app store as a bottleneck where everyone in the iPhone ecosystem must transact.”
Read MoreThe Hill's Harper Neidig speaks with Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller about how a groundbreaking op-ed by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes on The New York Times is making it "harder and harder to defend Facebook maintaining its monopoly power." In the op-ed, Hughes said that he was worried about the amount of power Facebook had amassed over the world’s communications and how Mark Zuckerberg, his former roommate and co-founder, had complete control over the company.
Read MoreFacebook 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.
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