Reporter Austin Ahlman delves into Google’s ramped up state-level lobbying efforts and surpassing of federal spending, trying to counter legislation like California’s CJPA and sway data privacy and media compensation laws nationwide.
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In this issue, we take a look at how the fight to rein in Big Tech giants is moving to the states as the future for antitrust enforcement remains uncertain under the incoming Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress.
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In this issue, we look at the lessons of the U.S. presidential election, and some next steps. We also explore how the EU’s AI strategy might concentrate even more power in the hands of Big Tech.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman supplies coverage in The Prospect on the 2024 election about the race in Nebraska and other incumbent elects leading the votes against Donald Trump.
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In this issue, we explore how Intel’s recent woes suggest that Biden administration’s CHIPS and Science Act was insufficient and recommend how the next administration must go further in investing in semiconductor manufacturing to protect the country’s national interest.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman delves into the fate of live television in the midst of Fubo’s against the launch of a new Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Fox sports streaming service.
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In this issue, we explain the importance of streaming television service Fubo’s lawsuit against three major entertainment companies poised to monopolize the live sport programming market with a new venture.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman and CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch co-wrote a report explaining why regulations are needed to check the proliferation of disinformation on the Big-Tech Platforms.
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In this issue, we explore the need for regulation mandating the disclosure of increasingly prevalent AI-generated content by major tech platforms.
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In this issue, we explore what news publishers seeking to be paid by Google and Facebook for news can learn from broadcast media’s fight with cable providers in a previous era.
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In this issue, we describe the UK’s efforts to block the United Arab Emirates from pushing into the country’s media market, and ask whether this offers a model for how the U.S. can handle foreign investment of U.S. media assets.
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In this issue, we broaden the conversation past TikTok to the myriad ways tech platforms and their data-collection practices harm Americans.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman focuses on chip giant Intel’s ‘secure enclave’ project will take nearly 10 percent of a CHIPS Act manufacturing fund that is already stretched thin.
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In this issue, we preview Google’s September trial, at which the Department of Justice will lay out its antitrust case against the tech giant for its dominance over the digital advertising, or ad tech, market.
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In this issue, we explore new antitrust reforms in Canada, which brings the country in line with recent antimonopoly initiatives in the U.S. and Europe.
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In this issue, we identify the real cause behind this year’s recent wave of layoffs and shutdown in journalism, which is the monopoly power of Google and Facebook.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman explains the battle between station ownership and the few remaining opportunities to reinstate regulatory practices on broadcasting companies by the FCC.
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In this issue, we explore a novel approach by Danish publishers to claw back funds from tech giants who have monopolized their advertising revenues. We also introduce our report “AI in the Public Interest: Confronting the Monopoly Threat,” which shows how a handful of Big Tech companies have already monopolized the emerging AI space.
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