Publications
The Open Markets Institute and the Center for Journalism & Liberty today welcome Johnny Ryan to their respective teams, with the veteran privacy and data specialist serving as a senior Open Markets fellow and joining the CJL’s Trans-Atlantic Board as an advisory member.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute releases a statement urging the U.S. government to immediately take a series of actions in addition to forcing the sale of TikTok.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has shattered the lives and businesses of millions of American workers and entrepreneurs. And yet amid the country’s worst economic downturn in almost a century, Big Tech corporations continue to profit from predatory and illegal business practices.
Read MoreThe Big Tech was a great victory for the American people. Questions by committee members brought a vast amount of damaging information to the public and raised fundamental questions about the legality of these corporations' business models and practices.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute commends Rep. David Cicilline and Rep. Jerrold Nadler for leading a masterful investigation of Big Tech CEOs in the first half of the July, 29, 2020 hearing. Congress is making it absolutely clear that Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon abuse their power in ways that threaten American democracy.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute applauds Rep. David Cicilline for conducting the historic Big Tech hearing, and urges members of the committee to seize the opportunity to protect American democracy from these dangerous corporations.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute joins Groundwork Collaborative to release a paper highlighting how the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis has exposed and exacerbated the flaws in the current global trading system, specifically as shortages of live-saving supplies like masks and ventilators have emerged across the world and countries have resorted to export bans to address them.
Read MoreOn July 21, 2020 3, Open Markets Institute filed a petition demanding the Federal Trade Commission ban exclusionary contracting by monopolists and other dominant firms. 30+ public interest groups and scholars signed the petition, including Food & Water Action, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and the American Economic Liberties Project. The petition calls on the FTC to use its unfair methods of competition authority to prohibit exclusionary contracting.
Read MoreThe Center for Journalism & Liberty rejects the Department of Justice’s approval of Liberty Media’s acquisition of iHeartMedia and urges a merger moratorium to block future consolidation, especially via mediums like radio, that are essential to disseminating news to Americans.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute urges federal enforcers to block Uber’s acquisition of Postmates, which would consolidate the predatory delivery app market from just four dominant players to three, threatening vulnerable restaurants and gig workers already devastated by the pandemic.
Read MoreWashington, DC – The following is a statement from Barry Lynn, executive director of the Open Markets Institute in regard to Amazon’s planned acquisition of Zoox
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute has long held that a deeply flawed regulatory environment in the United States has allowed Google, Facebook, and other platforms to acquire a dangerous concentration of control over how Americans exchange ideas, opinions, and news. Moreover, the profits of these corporations are based in large part on building user “engagement” through false and inflammatory content while starving trustworthy and accountable information sources of ad revenue.
Read MoreThe bills proposed by both Rep. Cicilline and Rep. Eshoo are critical first steps to preserving the integrity of our elections and stopping the manipulation of American voters. As I previously testified, Facebook and Google make a lot of money by renting out their manipulation machines to anyone who pays. These platforms surveil their users and then allow disinformation agents to target propaganda at users based on comprehensive and intimate data profiles.
Read MoreProposal calls for repeal of executive order invoking Defense Production Act to keep slaughterhouses operating.
Read MoreSen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) proposed legislation today to halt harmful mergers, in order to protect the American public from further consolidation and concentration. Open Markets applauds the moratorium on mergers and acquisitions by large firms as well as post-crisis rules to prevent dangerous takeovers once the economy begins to improve.
Read MoreHouse Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI) proposed legislation today for halting harmful mergers to protect the American economy, during the Shock Proof conference hosted by Open Markets and the OECD. Open Markets applauds the principles of the proposed moratorium on mergers and acquisitions by large firms not on the brink of failing.
Read MoreIn a very timely and important in-depth article for The Guardian, the Open Markets Institute’s new Fellow Mya Frazier sounds the alarm on how working conditions in food processing facilities across the country endanger thousands of workers.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute today called on anti-monopoly law enforcers and Congress to take a simple, three-step approach to breaking the dangerous concentration of power and control by Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
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