CJL Director Dr. Courtney C. Radsch issued a statement regarding a Spanish court ordering Meta to compensate digital media outlets for illegal use of their data, setting important precedent in the EU.
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Editorial director Anita Jain discusses Cory Doctorow’s concept of “enshittification” reveals how Big Tech deliberately worsens its products to maximize profit and control.
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CJL director Courtney Radsch argues that amid the failure to regulate its own tech firms, the U.S. must not be allowed to undermine European efforts to regain sovereignty over their information systems and resist domination by Big Tech.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya argues that U.S. courts must take strong structural action—not just behavioral fixes—to dismantle Google’s illegal monopoly over digital advertising. She contends that forcing divestitures of Google’s ad exchange (AdX) and ad server (DFP) is both technically feasible and necessary to restore competition, empower publishers, and prevent Google from continuing to manipulate the ad market through its control of key algorithms and data systems.
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The Open Markets Institute and ARTICLE 19 hosted on October 15th & 16th a convening of high-level leading thinkers, lawmakers, technologists, and advocates who discussed the direct and growing threats to our democracies and basic liberties posed by today’s dominant online communications platforms, the rise of AI, and interference by foreign states.
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In this issue, we explore how President Trump’s strategy of taking equity stakes in companies critical to national security is geared to fail. And we look forward to our October 15 and 16 conference on the US-Europe conflict over Free Speech and Democracy.
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Karina Montoya, senior reporter, wrote about the remedies hearings in the DOJ’s case against Google’s ad tech monopoly. She explained that the government is returning to court to push for a mix of structural separations and behavioral fixes to break open markets long dominated by Google.
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In this issue, we look at last week’s very different enforcement actions in Brussels and Washington on Google antitrust. And how Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Facebook get you to subsidize their enormous AI electricity bills.
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Open Markets Institute joined over 50 civil society groups in urging the European Commission to stand firm against U.S. interference in the EU’s digital rulemaking.
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In this issue, we discuss President Trump’s “revocation” of President Biden’s Executive Order on Competition. And we describe how the fight to defend FTC’s 2024 ban on non-compete clauses has moved to the states.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley is arguing that courts and enforcers must use structural remedies—like breakups and divestitures—against monopolists such as Google, emphasizing that history, law, and precedent require judges to impose sweeping reforms to restore competition and democratic accountability.
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Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan asserts that while antitrust wins against Big Tech are a step forward, the real battle lies in dismantling their invasive surveillance advertising model, which exploits our privacy and fuels societal harms.
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In this issue, we examine how RealPage, the target of a series of lawsuits for its algorithmic rent-setting software, has begun weaponizing the First Amendment to fend off moves to ban its software, most recently in Berkeley, California.
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As the White House announces its Big-Tech-first AI Action Plan, Open Markets contributes to call to prioritize a People’s AI Action Plan instead.
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CJL Director Courtney Radsch explains how Cloudflare's new policy to block AI crawlers by default and introduce a monetized marketplace for AI access marks a significant shift in web infrastructure, offering publishers more control and compensation but also raising concerns about the centralization of power and potential market dominance by Cloudflare.
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The Open Markets Institute warns that the European Commission's Cloud and AI Development Act will fail to achieve its goals unless it directly addresses the dominance of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in the cloud computing market, advocating for regulatory reforms to ensure fair competition and digital sovereignty in Europe.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya argues that Microsoft’s move to consolidate control over search data, AI, and cloud services by shutting down Bing Search APIs and tying access to Azure risks stifling competition and entrenching its dominance in the AI and search markets.
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In this issue, we look at how Microsoft is exploiting its control over Bing search data to force adoption of its cloud services and AI systems.
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