Publications
The American Prospect's David Dayen previews a week of hearing scrutinizing big tech. He cites Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard who said that the subcommittee investigation itself, more than public hearings, will drive recommendations for reshaping tech platform markets.
Read MoreOpen Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard speaks with Bloomberg reporters Lucas Shaw and Mark Bergen about YouTube's dominance. She says of the video platform owned by Google, “If you’re looking into Google, it would be remiss not to look at YouTube. You’ve got monopolies upon monopolies.”
Read MoreOpen Markets Executive Director Barry C. Lynn Al Jazeera’s Ben Piven regarding Amazon’s Monopoly power.
Read MoreNYT's reporter Nellie Bowles looks into how the right and left have come together to break up big tech writing that "Conservatives are showing up at largely liberal conferences to call for breaking up Facebook and Google. Liberals are going on conservative TV shows to do the same." She talks to Open Markets Senior Fellow Matt Stoller about the shift. “I always knew we were aiming at different things,” Stoller said. “Now, we have some of the same goals.”
Read MoreHuffPost's Carla Herreria reports on how "Democrats in Congress are threatening to take action after the FTC reportedly voted on a $5 billion penalty for Facebook’s privacy violations." She reports on the critics of the fine, including citing Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard blasting the fine as "woefully insufficient," and how Facebook's stock valuation only rose with the news of the FTC settlement.
Read MoreWIRED reports on the implications of the news of the FTC's $5 billion Facebook settlement and cites Open Markets Senior Fellow Matt Stoller in their reporting. “They can issue a really big fine, which is just a parking ticket,” Stoller recently told WIRED. “We don’t think a fine matters. We need a structural solution here.”
Read MoreOpen Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy talks to Jon Ward, host of Yahoo's Long Game Podcast on the case for regulating Facebook and Google. “The amount of data that Facebook and Google are collecting about the average person is absolutely insane, massive, widespread, ubiquitous, and I think honestly, a fraud on the American people that the people don't understand that this is happening,” said Hubbard.
Read MoreOpen Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard speaks to POLITICO about Google's acquisition of DoubleClick and how regulators failed to stop a merger that had a clear anti-competitive impact. “The DoubleClick merger is one of those deals you look back on and say, 'That was a mistake," Hubbard said.
Read MoreNBC News speaks with Open Markets Senior Fellow Matthew Stoller on the reaction of think tanks and advocacy groups backed by big tech to Senator Josh Hawley's proposed legislation aimed at the Silicon Valley giants. Stoller said last time he “saw this kind of collective temper tantrum by all their trade groups was" during the legislative battle over a pair of bills aimed at curtailing sex trafficking online, which altered Section 230.
Read MoreVanity Fair's Alison Durkee speaks with Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn about Congress' latest move against Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency, Libra. “This is a corporation that’s got fires all over the world with regulators. It’s only going to get worse,” said Lynn.
Read MoreBloomberg reporter Mike Dorning reports on how leading 2020 Democratic candidates view "antitrust action as long overdue" and that industries in the US could see a tougher stance from an incoming Democratic president. "Democratic presidential hopefuls are coming out in force against the rapid pace of corporate consolidation, a message to 2020 voters that gained volume during their first debates in Miami last week. They’re expanding their pledges to take on big tech, including Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc., to other industries."
Read MoreAP Reporter Matt O’Brien profiled House Antitrust Subcommittee Chair David Cicilline. This year he hired Lina Khan, a top attorney at Open Markets, to serve as a counsel to the subcommittee.
Read MoreNPR's Tim Mak talks to Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller about how lawmakers are changing their perceptions about Silicon Valley's biggest corporations. "They had always been perceived by progressives as doing a social good, as socially progressive, as being from areas represented by progressives. ... So there really wasn't a perception that these companies were dangerous," said Miller.
Read MoreOZY’s Fiona Zublin tells the story of how concentration in the coffin industry is impacting the lives of average Americans.
Read MoreThe Verge covers the debate over Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency, Libra, giving readers a summary of what it is and citing a number of criticisms against it, including Open Markets Senior Fellow Matthew Stoller's recent op-ed in the New York Times blasting Facebook's plan as dangerous and noting that it potentially gives those on the cryptocurrency's consortium an unfair advantage that could lead to price discrimination.
Read MoreThe New York Times' Marc Tracy covers the LSC/Quad merger and the U.S. Department of Justice's move to file suit against it. He cites a letter submitted to the DOJ earlier in the Spring by Open Markets, the Authors Guild and the PEN America against the merger demanding the government act to protect the free press.
Read MoreCBC News speaks with Open Markets Senior Fellow Matt Stoller about Facebook's new proposal to launch Libra, a new digital currency. He says Facebook's proposed global currency would give it the financial powers of a sovereign state and undermine democratic institutions. "It's an absurd idea to create a global currency system managed by a private group of people. I can't tell you how ridiculous it is," he told CBC.
Read MoreThe Houston Chronicle Editorial Board published a piece on Facebook's plans to act like a bank demanding regulation. They cite Open Markets Senior Fellow Matt Stoller's piece on The New York Times warning of the dangers of Facebook's proposed Libra coin.
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