In the Guardian, Barry Lynn, Executive Director explains, that as gatekeepers to the news, Google and Facebook pose dangers to even the most successful outlets.
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In this issue, we ask whether the EU’s $2.7 billion fine on Google last year has fixed online shopping in Europe, identify some of the facts left out of a recent Wired article about Amazon, and examine how T-Mobile’s takeover of Sprint merger would likely harm rural Americans.
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Open Markets Institute's Executive Director, Barry Lynn, responds.
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"The knee-jerk reaction to the European Union’s decision to fine Google $5.1 billion is to blame the Europeans. How can it be possible that in Europe the antitrust authorities determined that Google abused its dominance in the smartphone market when in America it did not?
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Phil and Barry were quoted in Joe Nocera's piece explaining that any antitrust action directed at the tech giants is tainted by the president's tweets.
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Sarah said Freedom from Facebook plans to fight Facebook for as long as it takes to bring about change and that the health of democracy depends on it.
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"My general point that no one should be doing the filtering of news for 2.1 billion people. But Mark Zuckerberg defending the sincerity of Holocaust deniers suggests that we may have picked the single worst person to do what is an impossible job." - Matt Stoller
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Last week, Mars, the company best known for brands like Snickers, Skittles, and Wrigley’s gum, purchased AniCura, a network of 200 animal hospitals spanning seven European countries. On its face, Mars’ acquisition of AniCura might not seem to make business sense. What synergies could possibly exist between making candy bars and taking care of sick dogs and cats? Yet, it turns out the deal is part of a much larger trend in which Big Food companies are cornering the business of both feeding and caring for pets.
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Stacy Mitchell from ILSR gave a detailed review of a new book, recognizing Barry Lynn has a leader of today's anti-monopoly thinkers.
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Sandeep explains why an antitrust enforcer anchored in consumer welfare is an antitrust enforcer anchored in anti-labor.
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Since roughly 2009, Americans may have been paying too much for their pork chops, barbeque, hams, and trotters. That’s the claim of two law firms that filed separate class action suits on behalf of consumers and food distributors charging eight major pork packers and an industry data sharing service, Agri Stats, with colluding to manipulate prices.
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This morning, the Open Markets Institute joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Watchdog, and Fight for the Future in the release of the following letter to EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager.
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Barry Lynn believes that although Google is unlikely to make significant changes to its business, there may be other positive consequences to EU's decision.
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With legal fellow Lina Khan now at the FTC, will the e-commerce giant soon face antitrust scrutiny?
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Open Markets, EPIC, and other civil society groups express strong support for EU Competition Commissioner's decision to fine Google for abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating systems.
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Matt Stoller explains the truth behind Amazon's fabricated holiday.
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Executive Director Barry Lynn writes in a paper for the AFL-CIO Commission on the Future of Work and Unions, about the political origins of America’s monopoly problem, the magnitude of the problem, and some of the specific ways in which Big Tech corporations such as Google and Uber make the monopoly problem worse.
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In this issue of The Corner, we look at U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's extreme pro-corporate record in antitrust cases. We report on the troubling implications of Match Group's roll-up of dating apps and question its intentions. And we interview Stacy Mitchell on Amazon's effort to grab power over your local government's procurement business.
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