In an interview Sunday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she has closed her account on Facebook, due to concerns about the “public health risk” posed by the platform.
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Motherboard reporter Rob Dozier reports on how industry association lobbying defanged the Illinois Keep Internet Devices Safe Act, which would have empowered average people to sue big companies for recording them without consent. He cites Open Markets fellow Matt Stoller for sharing the lobbying groups' statements on Twitter.
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), interviewed on the Recode podcast this week, said “There are clear lines that we see in...companies that maybe could be easily broken up, without any impact, one on the other. I’m a big believer in the antitrust laws.”
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Open Markets' reporter Claire Kelloway writes about the nation’s fourth-largest beef packer National Beef's plans to take over Sysco-owned Iowa Premium, a regional packer focused on processing black angus steers for the Upper Midwest and how this merger threatens America’s last competitive cash cattle market.
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Open Markets Editorial and Policy Director Phil Longman published a feature piece on the Washington Monthly explaining how corporations primary objective in collecting your personal data is to gouge you. He explains how today's big tech platforms are no different from historic network industries — railroads and the telegraph — and how considering price discrimination should be an important standard in the national privacy debate.
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In a feature published in the Washington Monthly, Open Markets’ Policy and Editorial Director Phil Longman draws attention to the mounting problem of price discrimination on the internet. Corporations are wringing every penny from your purchases by offering you unique prices and terms service based on their surveillance of your personal online data.
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Amid controversy over President Trump's "new NAFTA", Open Markets fellow Beth Baltzan joins the trade debate with a groundbreaking essay on the Washington Monthly calling for a bold rethink of America’s trade policies to curb corporate power, protect workers and the environment.
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As controversy builds this week over President Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal, Open Markets fellow Beth Baltzan joins the debate with a groundbreaking essay in the Washington Monthly calling for a bold rethink of America’s trade policies to curb corporate power and protect workers and the environment.
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Open Markets published a major policy brief, ‘Food and Power: Addressing Monopolization in America’s Food System’, framing the national conversation surrounding the problems facing rural America and the discussion by Democratic leaders at the Heartland Forum regarding proposed solutions including reining in major corporate monopolies.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we report on a forum, co-sponsored by Open Markets Action in Storm Lake, Iowa, in which five leading Democratic presidential candidates addressed the link between economic concentration and the declining fortunes of rural America.
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Last Saturday, five Democratic Party presidential hopefuls gathered at an event in Storm Lake, Iowa to present their platforms for revitalizing America’s farms and rural communities. Co-sponsored by the HuffPost, Iowa Farmers Union, Open Markets Action, and The Storm Lake Times, the Heartland Forum received wide coverage in the press, most of it focused on how all the candidates called for much stronger enforcement of antitrust laws against the corporations that dominate agricultural and food systems.
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The Hill's Harper Neidig talks to Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard about Facebook CEP Mark Zuckerberg's call to regulate Internet giants and eyebrows raised by his proposals. “I think he’s trying to avoid what we really need, which is to stop the massive collection of data and to stop these algorithms that prioritize engagement and elevate the [harmful] content,” Hubbard told The Hill.
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Axios reporter Steve LeVine cited Open Markets' major agriculture policy brief in his report about farm bankruptcies in Iowa and how big business is bleeding the midwest.
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NBC News’ Benjy Sarlin reports on how the 2020 presidential contenders are taking up the antimonopoly call saying market concentration is harming the American economy.
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As the debate about corporate power in rural communities heats up, Open Markets Institute released its first major policy paper documenting concentration in America’s agricultural sector, providing an in-depth breakdown across sectors from meat processing to groceries.
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The Columbia Journalism Review's Emily Bell reports on the impact of Big Tech on the media industry and why Facebook, Apple, and Google do things that journalists should be investigating, not profiting from. She references the conflict with Google by the Open Markets Initiative at the New America Foundation in her reporting.
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This report, “Food and Power: Addressing Monopolization in America’s Food System,” documents the degree of concentration found in different agriculture-related sectors of the economy and lays out solutions for policymakers.
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Bloomberg's Josh Eidelson reports on Open Markets and its coalition members' petition to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ban non-compete clauses from employee contracts and speaks to Open Markets legal direct Sandeep Vaheesan and other signatories. Non-competes impact 30 million workers in America today.
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