Open Markets Institute applauds the Australian competition regulator for refusing Google's attempt to circumvent further investigation about its proposed acquisition of Fitbit, urges the EU to reverse its decision to approve the merger, and calls on the U.S. DOJ, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and other nations to reject the deal.
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Open Markets Institute releases a statement asserting that the new lawsuit against Google by state AG’s makes clear that Google threatens free speech and democracy, and highlighting need for structural separation and nondiscrimination rules.
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Open Markets Institute is excited to announce that Sally Hubbard, our director of enforcement strategy, today released her first book, “Monopolies Suck: The 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control”.
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Open Markets Institute applauds the groundbreaking U.S. v. Google complaint for taking strong antitrust action against Google, but notes that it only addresses a portion of Google’s monopolization.
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Open Markets Institute applauds Rep. David Cicilline and the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust’s report and recommendations based on its 17-month investigation of America’s largest tech companies: Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple.
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Congress implored to act swiftly to rein in Big Tech’s anti-competitive behavior and acquisitions at the October, 2020, House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee hearing.
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This report, “Beggars and Choosers: How Google and Facebook compromise media independence with their corporate donations,” considers the contradictory behavior of Google and Facebook toward journalism
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SmarterAnalyst’s Ben Mahaney reports on how Alphabet Inc.’s Google faces an antritust investigation, launched by the State of California. The investigation joins the 50 states and territories on their scrutiny of the tech giant’s control on advertising and internet searches. “We applaud the 50 state attorney generals for taking this unprecedented stand against Big Tech by uniting to investigate Google’s destruction of competition in search and advertising,” said the Open Markets Institute.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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AFR correspondent Jacob Greber cites Open Markets Institute when reporting in Financial Review about the US monitoring Australia's decision to make Big Tech share advertising revenue with local media companies.
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"We strongly support the entrepreneurs and independent businesses who are standing up to challenge the dominance of Facebook, Amazon, and Google over America’s markets," said Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn in a statement today.
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Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard spoke to The Washington Post about why smaller technology companies have not been more outspoken regarding the anti-competitive practices of larger technology companies ahead of a House Antitrust Subcommittee field hearing taking place in Colorado where smaller tech firm leaders will have an opportunity to testify. “We don’t often hear from those entrepreneurs because they can't afford to speak out, we haven’t had a look under the hood of these companies,” Hubbard said.
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Associated Press Reporter Marcy Gordon sits down and interviews Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard about her take on the need for greater antitrust enforcement. With the biggest tech companies under government investigation for alleged anti-competitive conduct, her analysis speaks to an issue of growing urgency.
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