Publications
Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan writes about how the FTC can prohibit the harmful surveillance advertising business model used by Facebook, Google, and other platforms as an unfair method of competition, and force the corporations to develop benign methods of making money.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue we discuss the important lesson to be learned from AT&T’s failed acquisition of WarnerMedia: Mergers need more scrutiny.
Daniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute, writes about the vast regulatory powers to restructure markets and curb excessive concentrations of corporate power that U.S. state governments have.
Read MoreExecutive Director Barry Lynn speaks at an OECD conference about how to structure international systems in a way that ensures stability and resilience.
Read MoreWashington Monthly runs Claire Kelloway’s piece from Food & Power about how tech giants are trying to create a monopoly middleman on grocery deliveries.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss President Biden's address to Congress and his hints at transforming U.S. industrial policy and detail the Federal Trade Commission's newly released report on right to repair.
Daniel Hanley walks us through the FTC’s May 5, 2021 report to Congress on the Right to Repair.
Read MoreDaniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute writes about how a recent Supreme Court decision has starkly narrowed the FTC’s power to easily return stolen funds to consumers.
Read MoreClaire Kelloway, senior reporter and researcher, speaks on a podcast about how agricultural monopolies have resulted in overproduction, degraded ecosystems, public health crises, all-time-high farm debt, and narrower opportunities for new farmers.
Read MoreSally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy, discusses what current shifts in competition policy and enforcement could mean for the retail industry writ large.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we share highlights from the Open Markets Institute’s all-day conference on how to protect the free press and democracy from Google and Facebook, we highlight Dan Froomkin‘s Open Markets-funded expose of how Facebook funnels dark money to The New York Times, and we celebrate Open Markets fellow Beth Baltzan joining the Biden administration.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Rep. David Cicilline, and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison joined two dozen law enforcers, journalists, and analysts to address policy solutions in “After Google & Facebook: The Future of Journalism & Democracy.”
Read MoreIn a close study of The New York Times, journalist Dan Froomkin makes the case that Facebook’s funding of major news providers creates dangerous conflicts of interest—in The Washington Monthly on behalf of The Open Markets Institute’s Center for Journalism & Liberty.
Read MoreBrian Callaci of Open Markets Institute writes in Forge Organizing about how trade unionism and the movement to stop monopolies are complements, not substitutes.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute announces its filing of an amicus brief in support of stock photography company Dreamstime in its lawsuit against Google for abusing its monopoly in online search.
Read MoreOpen Markets research associate Garphil Julien writes about the decline in U.S. bike manufacturing and how the United States can use an industrial strategy to meet soaring bike demand during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read MoreRead our full amicus brief in support of Dreamstime in its lawsuit against Google for abusing its monopoly in online search.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss the Student-Athlete compensation antitrust case at the Supreme Court, Apple's race to acquire AI companies, and comment on the Suez Canal ship incident.
