Barry Lynn responded to news that Disney's ABC is indefinitely pulling down “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
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The Open Markets Institute submitted an amicus brief in United States v. Google, urging the court to order Google to divest part of its advertising technology businesses to restore competition and to protect publishers, advertisers, and the public.
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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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In this issue, we look at last week’s very different enforcement actions in Brussels and Washington on Google antitrust. And how Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Facebook get you to subsidize their enormous AI electricity bills.
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EU tech policy fellow George Colville argues that the AI industry's growing energy demands are unfairly driving up electricity prices for ordinary Americans, with tech giants leveraging their power to shift the cost burden onto taxpayers and households instead of bearing it themselves.
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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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Open Markets Institute joined over 50 civil society groups in urging the European Commission to stand firm against U.S. interference in the EU’s digital rulemaking.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman writes on Maine Senate candidate David Platner, who is positioning himself as part of a new wave of populists.
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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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Transportation analyst Arnav Rao argues that Trump’s push to revive U.S. shipbuilding has more substance than his usual policy swings, since the industry is vital to national security and enjoys rare bipartisan support. Still, Rao notes that America’s shipyards remain plagued by delays, high costs, and dependence on foreign-built vessels — meaning any true revival would require a coordinated, large-scale effort reminiscent of the Liberty ship program of World War II.
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Cheif economist Brian Callaci exclaims how that banning non-compete clauses is essential for protecting worker freedom, boosting the economy, and countering corporate coercion, even as federal support wavers
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In this issue, we discuss President Trump’s “revocation” of President Biden’s Executive Order on Competition. And we describe how the fight to defend FTC’s 2024 ban on non-compete clauses has moved to the states.
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Reporter Aushin Ahlman wrote on Iowa state House representative J.D. Scholten’s ending of his campaign to represent Iowa in the U.S. Senate, which “follows a push from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, or DSCC, to recruit and clear the field for fellow state House member Josh Turek.”
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