Our latest report showing how AI Agents could concentrate market and political power in a few companies, the risk to democracy and markets, and policy recommendations.

CMDG Director Courtney Radsch argues that the new Congress should treat Big Tech accountability, AI governance, media plurality, and press freedom as part of the same broader challenge of concentrated corporate power.

In this issue, we explore how Lula’s win in Brazil’s elections will allow Brazil to continue its leadership role in regulating Big Tech platforms.

Industrial Policy Manager Audrey Stienon reviews Isabella Weber’s Anti-Fascist Economics arguing that affordability should be treated as a democratic imperative and that governments need stronger tools to protect people from price shocks, concentrated corporate power, and economic insecurity.

Open Markets Institute calls for breaking up Waymo and Google Maps, warns that unchecked robotaxi monopolies threaten public transit, local democracy, and Americans' freedom to move 

Our brief argues that AI giants are breaking copyright law to undermine journalism and gain an unfair advantage over competitors that follow the rules.

CMDG welcomed the Paris Court of Appeal’s dismissal of Meta's challenge to the French Competition Authority's interim measures on publishers’ rights.

Policy and advocacy lead Giorgos Verdi joins Keldon Bester from the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project in The Globe and Mail to argue that the EU and Canada must commit to the “tech alliance” promised by Ursula von der Leyen and work together to break away from their shared dependence on American tech platforms and infrastructure.

This is but the latest example of how Meta has built a trillion-dollar business using willfully unfair, anticompetitive, deceptive, and unconscionable practices, terms used by judges who have found its practices unfair and illegal. 

he Center for Media and Digital Governance at Open Markets joined a coalition letter urging the Australian government to maintain strong copyright protections for creators and journalists amid reports that officials are considering exempting AI companies from copyright obligations when training their models. CMDG warned that weakening these protections would undermine rights holders’ ability to control and negotiate compensation for the use of their work and could set a harmful international precedent.