Reporter Karina Montoya amplifies the contrast of lay offs and persistence between that of digital media platforms, such as BuzzFeed, and Big Tech corporations .
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Open Markets Institute Policy Counsel Tara Pincock released the following statement in reaction to the Ninth Circuit Appeals Court’s decision to uphold Apple’s numerous violations of our antitrust laws.
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Open Markets legal director Sandeep Vaheesan explains how, paired with rules on unfair competition, breakups of dominant tech corporations can ensure business rivalry that confers benefits on consumers, workers, and suppliers.
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Open Markets highlights concerns over the potential for Big Tech to use payments for self-preferencing and steering, extractive business practices, enhanced data for manipulative algorithms and the potential for financial surveillance.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley and director of enforcement strategy Sally Hubbard discuss Apple’s App Store monopoly and their jurisdiction over its consumers.
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See Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn’s full testimony.
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Senior Legal Analyst Daniel Hanley comments on U.S. lawmakers' focus on recommender algorithms.
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Open Markets adviser Johnny Ryan calls out Ireland for holding back European enforcement against Big Tech.
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Financial policy director Alexis Goldstein writes about how the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies does not correlate with the inability to comply with tax laws.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley explains why the FCC should block Verizon’s attempt to merge with a critical competitor and market participant.
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Open Markets supports Rep. Eshoo’s reintroduction of the “Banning Microtargeted Political Ads Act” because stopping the spread of dis- and misinformation and online propaganda is critical for preserving the integrity of our elections and strengthening American democracy.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley writes in Common Dreams about Amazon’s latest ploy to release an Alexa-enabled tracking device for children—and the corporations larger crusade to monopolize markets and surveil consumer and third-party merchants.
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The Open Markets Institute applauds the Biden administration’s nomination of Jonathan Kanter to run the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.
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Policy analyst Daniel Hanley demonstrates how federal antitrust enforcers could use compulsory licensing to help bolster and speed up other anti-monopoly efforts, especially when it comes to tech giant Google.
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New report enumerates a plethora of predatory, exclusionary, and unfair practices that Amazon implements to surveil its competitors and consumers.
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Open Markets Institute releases a sequel report on Amazon’s surveillance—This time documenting the scale and scope of Amazon’s consumer and competitor surveillance operations, their adverse impacts, and how to make Amazon stop.
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