Publications
The UK Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) will require Google to to adhere to new conduct requirements in their use of publisher content for AI Overviews. CMDG was at the forefront of urging the CMA to adopt remedies to level the playing field with publishers in the transition to AI-enabled search.
Read MoreThe Center for Journalism and Liberty is now the Center for Media and Digital Governance (CMDG) at the Open Markets Institute. The new name reflects the Center’s expansive body of work examining how concentrated technology power, digital infrastructure, and artificial intelligence are reshaping journalism, information markets, democratic governance, and public debate.
Read MoreCJL program manager Karina Montoya takes stock of Google’s YouTube TV growth in live TV streaming, and what its clashes with TV programmers mean as Big Tech continues to be an unregulated actor in streaming services.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreNetflix’s bid to swallow Warner Bros. Discovery’s studios and streaming business is a raw deal for viewers, writers, creators, theaters. Karina Montoya weighs in.
Read MoreTwo months after bending to a White House demand to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! from its network, Nexstar Media Group is asking the Trump administration to approve an illegal $6.2 billion merger that would grant it control over TV stations reaching more than half the country. Dr. Courtney Radsch released a statement condemning the merger.
Read MoreCJL 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.
Read MoreSenior 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.
Read MoreIn this issue, we recap our 2-day Future of Democracy conference in Brussels and analyze the recently concluded remedies trial for Google’s monopoly over digital advertising.
Read MoreKarina 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.
Read MoreSenior 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreSenior reporter Karina Montoya reflects on the end of the remedies phase of the Department of Justice’s case against Google for monopolizing the online search market. She argues that Google’s warnings against divestiture of its browser, Chrome, fall short and that a breakup will benefit the security of the internet, innovation, and users.
Read MoreIn this issue, we explore how copyright protections, currently under threat from the Trump administration, stand as a bulwark against Big Tech‘s use of copyrighted material to turbocharge AI growth.
Read MoreSenior reporter Karina Montoya warns that Shira Perlmutter’s firing reflects Big Tech’s campaign to undermine copyright safeguards, as AI giants seek to freely exploit creative works without consent or accountability.
Read MoreSenior reporter Karina Montoya analyzes the DOJ’s push for structural remedies in the Google search antitrust trial, including potential divestiture of Chrome.
Read MoreThe independent regulator is moving forward with one most comprehensive inquiry to date in the Global South taking on Big Tech and AI's impacts on journalism.
Read MoreSenior reporter Karina Montoya argues that dismantling Google’s search monopoly requires structural changes, such as divesting Chrome which would break its interdependencies with Android, and implementing public oversight on its AI investments, to restore competition and prevent further market entrenchment.
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