Center for Journalism & Liberty reporter Karina Montoya talks with a media industry leader about publishers' and regulators' efforts to reshape the future of digital advertising, and the challenges the come with curbing Google's and Facebook's surveillance advertising.
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The Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission, and Financial Regulators should examine and mitigate the risks the pilot presents.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley details how congressionally delegated powers can prohibit specific corporate conduct to require more publicly acceptable business practices.
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Center for Journalism & Liberty reporter Karina Montoya frames insights from a new author, focusing on the challenges of data harvested by Google, Facebook and Apple, and harms to the news industry.
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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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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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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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Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan writes about how the FTC can prohibit the harmful surveillance advertising business model used by Facebook, Google, and other platforms as an unfair method of competition, and force the corporations to develop benign methods of making money.
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Open Markets Institute asserts that Google’s threat to stop providing search services to the people of Australia, and Facebook’s threat to block Australians from sharing links to news proves the platforms pose a fundamental threat to the world’s democracies.
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Open Markets Institute is pleased to publish an important paper by the economists John Kwoka and Tommaso Valletti that looks at cases in which U.S. and European law enforcers required corporations to unwind completed mergers.
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Daniel Hanley, policy analyst for Open Markets Institute, writes in Washington Monthly about two mistakes the FTC made in its antitrust case against Facebook.
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Open Markets Institute releases a statement saying: The U.S. v. Facebook complaint is a critical step toward ending the corporation’s dangerous control over the flow of information and stopping its monopolistic pattern of buying, copying, or killing competitors.
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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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Sally Hubbard, OMI's director of enforcement strategy, told Yahoo News' senior political correspondent how Facebook’s use of algorithms favor post engagement — even if the post contains false information or inflammatory remarks. “The problem is that [Facebook’s algorithm] boosts the hateful content because that is what is most engaging and serves Facebook’s business model. I don’t think you can fix this problem by these little Band-Aids that Facebook has been offering,” she said.
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Despite its implementation of new policies, Facebook grapples to maintain the spread of the “boogalo” movement on its platform, The Washington Post reports. The movement, known for its anti-government and anti-law enforcement stance, has continued to trickle into varying Facebook pages and groups, spreading misinformation about the protests as well as encouraging armed violence.
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