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Project Syndicate - Europe Should Reject US-Style Competitiveness
Op-Eds
Project Syndicate - Europe Should Reject US-Style Competitiveness
Op-Eds

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan emphasizes that Europe doesn’t need to copy America’s model to be competitive; it should double down on strong competition policy to avoid the economic imbalances and harms baked into the US approach.

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The Corner Newsletter: OpenAI’s RAMpage (February 10th, 2026)
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The Corner Newsletter: OpenAI’s RAMpage (February 10th, 2026)
Newsletters

In this issue, we explore the legal and economic impact of OpenAI’s deals to lock up supply of memory chips.

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Open Markets Institute Applauds EU Move to Stop Meta from Gatekeeping AI on WhatsApp
Press Releases, Statements
Open Markets Institute Applauds EU Move to Stop Meta from Gatekeeping AI on WhatsApp
Press Releases, Statements

The European Commission announced a preliminary finding that Meta may have abused its dominant position by excluding third-party AI assistants from WhatsApp. The Commission intends to impose interim measures to prevent serious and irreparable damage to competition. Such measures could include Meta being forced to open WhatsApp to third-party AI assistants. Max von Thun, Director of Europe & Transatlantic Partnerships at the Open Markets Institute, released a following statement.

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European Commission’s Preliminary Finding Against TikTok Is a Landmark Moment for Platform Accountability
Statements, Press Releases
European Commission’s Preliminary Finding Against TikTok Is a Landmark Moment for Platform Accountability
Statements, Press Releases

The Open Markets Institute released a statement led by Max von Thun, Director of Europe & Transatlantic Partnership a preliminary finding that TikTok’s platform design contributes to addictive use and may violate the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) requiring TikTok to fundamentally change to its business model, including disabling addictive features such as “infinite scroll”. 

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research • policy • advocacy

Shining a light on monopoly power and its dangers to democracy.

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Project Syndicate - Europe Should Reject US-Style Competitiveness
Open Markets
Project Syndicate - Europe Should Reject US-Style Competitiveness
Open Markets

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan emphasizes that Europe doesn’t need to copy America’s model to be competitive; it should double down on strong competition policy to avoid the economic imbalances and harms baked into the US approach.

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Open Markets
Washington Monthly - How to Bring Down Grocery Prices
Claire Kelloway
Washington Monthly - How to Bring Down Grocery Prices
Claire Kelloway

Food program manager Claire Kelloway comparing New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed city-run grocery stores to government-run grocery stores for the military.

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Claire Kelloway
The Guardian - Netflix and Paramount deals are both wrong for Warner Bros Discovery – and democracy
Courtney Radsch
The Guardian - Netflix and Paramount deals are both wrong for Warner Bros Discovery – and democracy
Courtney Radsch

CJL director Courtney Radsch contends that both the Netflix and Paramount–Skydance bids for Warner Bros. Discovery would deepen media concentration in ways that endanger free speech, audience choice, and democracy by placing cultural storytelling and news under the control of conglomerates willing to bend to political pressure.

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Courtney Radsch
 

Newsletters

Publications
The Corner Newsletter: OpenAI’s RAMpage (February 10th, 2026)
The Corner Newsletter: OpenAI’s RAMpage (February 10th, 2026)

In this issue, we explore the legal and economic impact of OpenAI’s deals to lock up supply of memory chips.

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The Corner Newsletter: Amazon Seeks to Police Emerging AI Agent Market (January 27th, 2026)
The Corner Newsletter: Amazon Seeks to Police Emerging AI Agent Market (January 27th, 2026)

In this issue, we look at Amazon’s recent lawsuit that aims to keep Perplexity’s AI agents from “intruding” on Amazon’s website, in a case that could help determine the future of the emerging AI agent market.

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The Corner Newsletter: Google Flexes its TV Monopoly & OMI’s Testimony on Netflix-Warner Bros (January 13th, 2026)
The Corner Newsletter: Google Flexes its TV Monopoly & OMI’s Testimony on Netflix-Warner Bros (January 13th, 2026)

In this issue, we explore Google’s growing power in the television industry, as the tech giant uses YouTube T V to squeeze major TV programmers like Fox and Disney.

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The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
Innovation beyond Big Tech
Innovation beyond Big Tech
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More Perfect Union - How One Mega Merger Could Raise Prices On Everything
More Perfect Union - How One Mega Merger Could Raise Prices On Everything
IBA - Protecting democracy
IBA - Protecting democracy
 

EXCLUSIVE REPORT

Stopping big tech
from becoming big ai

With AI rapidly becoming a cornerstone of the global economy, our report with Mozilla warns that society stands at a critical crossroads: One path leads to a future where AI is controlled by a small number of powerful corporations, threatening innovation, consumer privacy, individual liberty and democracy. The other path, the report advocates, leads to a diverse and competitive market where AI is developed by a wide range of participants – public, private, and non-profit – and serves the broader public interest. 

 
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Testimonials

“A tiny nonprofit that’s becoming a lightning rod for growing anger and frustration with Big Tech in America.”

-Quartz

“Open Markets is doing revolutionary and essential work when monopoly looms over American life.”

- VICE

“The Open Markets group led by Lynn contains many of the most respected voices in an increasingly prominent discussion about technology and telecom monopolies, and its findings about corporate consolidation and monopolistic power have been extremely influential in turning antitrust into an important policy issue.”

- New York Magazine

“There have been few think tank teams as effective as Barry Lynn’s [and the Open Market Institute’s].”

- The Atlantic

“The whole idea of a think tank is to cultivate ideas that have an actual impact on The Debate. Barry Lynn [and the Open Markets Institute] has done that better than anyone.”

- Chris Hayes, MSNBC

“The past couple of years have seen a resurgence of political interest in antitrust policy, which is increasingly seen as a potential solution to America’s current dilemma of high corporate profits and slow economic growth…It’s fair to say that the primary intellectual mover behind all of this has been Barry Lynn [and the Open Markets Institute].”

- Vox

“It's difficult to overstate Mr. Lynn’s [and Open Market Institute’s] influence in raising concerns about the market dominance of Google, as well as other tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook.”

- The New York Times

 

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