In an opinion piece about supply chains, Paul Krugman mentions Executive Director Barry Lynn’s predictions about the dangers of centralizing manufacturing on supply-chain risks.
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Open Markets adviser Johnny Ryan calls out Ireland for holding back European enforcement against Big Tech.
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Senior Legal Analyst Daniel Hanley shines a light on the issues baked into Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s proposed solutions for neutralizing Facebook.
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Senior Fellow Nikki Usher is featured in an article about controlling misinformation on Facebook.
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Senior Reporter & Researcher Claire Kelloway stars in a video segment about corporate consolidation of the meatpacking industry.
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Senior reporter and researcher Claire Kelloway is featured on NPR’s Morning Edition commenting on the dangers of food supply consolidation.
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Financial policy director Alexis Goldstein discusses the inequities of the U.S. tax system with CNBC’s Squawk Box team.
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Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard’s past writing about the hurdles involved in using the legal system to hold tech giants accountable is referenced in an article about “sherlocking.”
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Nikki Usher, senior fellow at the Center for Journalism & Liberty, is quoted noting that U.S. news markets have long neglected to provide coverage for many communities.
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Executive director Barry Lynn is featured in an interview with former Open Markets employee, Michael Bluhm discussing the U.S. government’s developing approaches to Big Tech.
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Executive director Barry Lynn is quoted in reporting about President Biden’s appointment of former Open Markets employee Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission.
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Claire Kelloway, senior reporter and researcher, speaks on a podcast about how agricultural monopolies have resulted in overproduction, degraded ecosystems, public health crises, all-time-high farm debt, and narrower opportunities for new farmers.
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Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy, discusses what current shifts in competition policy and enforcement could mean for the retail industry writ large.
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Open Markets’ report, “Addressing Monopolization in America’s Food System,” was cited in an op-ed written by Gracy Olmstead about how to fix our food systems.
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Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy, appeared on C-SPAN’s “The Communicators” to discuss competition in digital technology markets, potential regulatory actions, and consumer rights.
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Politico’s Morning Tech host Alexandra Levine mentions Johnny Ryan will be joining Open Markets Institute as a senior fellow and as a Trans-Atlantic Board advisor for the Center for Journalism & Liberty.
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Following a landmark congressional hearing against big tech companies, Columbia Journalism Review’s Mathew Ingam considers if, and how, competition regulations and antitrust law will adapt to digital networks. Among those interviewed include OMI’s legal director Sandeep Vaheesan. “[The legislative body] has been silent for so long on these questions,” he said. “It felt like a throwback to an earlier time when Congress took its oversight function and matters of market governance seriously.”
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In a Q&A between Columbia Journalism Review’s chief digital writer Mathew Ingram and OMI’s legal director Sandeep Vaheesan, the two discussed the impact of the congressional antitrust hearing while examining the admissions made by Big Tech CEOs, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. “Amazon appears to be ‘tying’ logistics with visibility and prominence on its marketplace. This sort of tying is illegal when done by a firm with market power, which Amazon has in ecommerce,” Vaheesan said.
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