Statement from Dr. Courtney Radsch, Director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at Open Markets regarding the news that Paramount Skydance is preparing a cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, backed by the Ellison family
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Join The Open Markets Institute and ARTICLE 19 on October 15th & 16th for a convening of high-level leading thinkers, lawmakers, technologists, and advocates to discuss 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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Open Markets condemns the FTC’s filing a motion to withdraw from defending its landmark rule banning traditional and de facto non-competes.
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Open Markets Europe Director Max von Thun released a statement in response to the European Commission’s decision to fine Google €3 billion for abusing its dominance in the adtech market and ordering the internet giant to end its illegal conduct.
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Open Markets Institute Europe submitted more than 20 pages of recommendations to the European Commission as part of its consultation on updating the EU’s Horizontal and Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines for the first time in nearly two decades.
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The Open Markets Institute submitted a letter to the House Judiciary Committee calling on Congress to reject Big Tech’s fear-mongering campaign against European digital regulation and instead recognize how Europe’s approach strengthens free speech, competition, and democracy.
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Barry Lynn released the following statement following Judge Mehta’s failure to force Google to divest from Chrome and Android following his finding the company has maintained an illegal monopoly on search.
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The Open Markets Institute and the Revolving Door Project released a comprehensive joint report on the policy underpinnings of the so-called “abundance agenda,” an economic agenda popularized by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in their recent book Abundance.
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The Center for Journalism & Liberty at Open Markets, alongside Public Knowledge and Rebuild Local News, submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) urging them to strengthen their initial proposed remedies to break Google’s monopoly over advertising technologies (ad tech), a digital market that intermediates ad sales mainly between news publishers and advertisers on the open web.
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The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court, urging the Court to address Merck’s alleged misrepresentations to the Food and Drug Administration to extend its monopoly in the mumps vaccine market.
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The Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute joined with 15 leading press freedom groups, civil liberties organizations and labor unions to urge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to move forward with plans to loosen media ownership limits.
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The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals warning that Intuitive Surgical is exploiting its monopoly over surgical robots to dominate markets for essential accessories—posing serious risks to hospitals, doctors, and patients.
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Executive director Barry Lynn released a statement on the Federal Communications Commission’s 2-1 vote to approve Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount.
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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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In Out of Many, One, a new anthology from American Futures spotlighting the thinkers shaping tomorrow’s democracy, Barry Lynn offers a deeply historical and philosophical argument: the battle against monopoly and autocracy is not just economic or political—it is also moral and even spiritual.
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Max von Thun applauds a new report on tech algorithms and misinformation from the UK Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
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The Open Markets Institute condemns the FCC for abusing its regulatory power to dismantle diversity programs and silence press freedom, calling it a dangerous politicization of antitrust authority.
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The Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute released a statement on the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s provisional decision to grant Google ‘strategic market status’ and its proposal for possible interventions to restore competition in search.
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