Policy director Phillip Longman contributes this piece in a series on how to rescue and revitalize journalism.
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Open Markets Institute releases a statement emphasizing the need to preserve good antitrust doctrine and to protect the public from tying by monopolists.
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Next TV’s John Eggerton reports on the Banning Microtargeted Political Ads Act, proposed by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), which will work to prohibit varying platforms, sites and ad networks from using data-driven political ads that include disinformation and/or misinformation.
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The New Yorker's Sheelah Kolhatkar profiles Elizabeth Warren's plans to break up big tech and how in early 2016 then-Open Markets' Lina Khan and Barry Lynn shaped her thinking in regards to antimonopoly policy. She reports that on June 29, 2016, Warren delivered a speech, titled “Reigniting Competition in the American Economy,” at an event for Open Markets. “Google, Apple, and Amazon have created disruptive technologies that changed the world, and every day they deliver enormous value,” Warren said. “They deserve to be highly profitable and highly successful. But the opportunity to compete must remain open for new entrants and smaller competitors who want their chance to change the world.”
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Yahoo Finance Associate Editor Katie Krzaczek reports on an interview of Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard by Yahoo Finance's YFI AM on the recent news that the Department of Justice is launching an antitrust review of big tech. Hubbard told Yahoo Finance’s YFI AM that “there is plenty there for enforcers to go after,” especially in its retail practices.
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HuffPost'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.
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The New York Times' David Streitfeld writes that big tech’s power has regulators and scholars, such as those of Open Markets, trying to reverse years of established doctrine. He also describes how anti-monopoly reformers are in ascendance and speaks with Open Markets' Executive Director Barry Lynn about anti-monopoly law and its history.
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Bloomberg 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.”
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The 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.”
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David 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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Executive Director Barry Lynn writes in a paper for the AFL-CIO Commission on the Future of Work and Unions, about the political origins of America’s monopoly problem, the magnitude of the problem, and some of the specific ways in which Big Tech corporations such as Google and Uber make the monopoly problem worse.
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Lina Khan's March op-ed is cited in this article explaining the consequences of the Supreme Court ruling.
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Lina Khan explains the weight of the decision in Ohio v. American Express.
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