Publications
CMDG director Courtney Radsch explains that courts are beginning to hold Meta, TikTok, and other platforms accountable for harmful design choices that allegedly prioritized engagement over child safety, challenging their ability to hide behind Section 230.
Read More“This decision effectively places FCC Chair Brendan Carr in open defiance of Congress, and it gives us yet again another reason to call for removing him from his post,” said CMDG director, Dr. Courtney Radsch.
Read MoreAs debates about AI governance and transparency sweep across governments, the Open Markets Institute has joined an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to uphold California's law requiring AI companies to disclose information about the data used to train their models.
Read MoreBy deepening concentration in the film and TV industry, the proposed transaction raises significant competition concerns. CMDG and Open Markets Europe call on the EU Commission to investigate the proposed merger.
Read MoreCMDG director Dr. Courtney Radch argues that Google’s AI search features amount to a content grab unless publishers can refuse AI use without losing visibility in regular search. The piece frames the UK CMA’s move as an important check on Google’s power because it separates access to search from consent to AI reuse, giving publishers more control over whether their work is used to generate AI answers.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreA report from Open Markets Institute Senior Fellow Sally Hubbard argues policymakers must ensure either that AI agents work on behalf of users, or that users understand when AI agents are working on behalf of a corporation.
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.
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