My statement on this act of censorship, capitulation and perversion by the world's most powerful #BigTech companies. www.linkedin.com/posts/radsch...

This is exactly right. The world is on the brink of platform authoritarianism, and tech oligarchs are working overtime to capture this administration as well as the opposition. But it's not too late for Americans to take back our democracy from Silicon Valley.

During the remedies phase of the #googleadtech case this week, we learned from witnesses why breaking up Google's monopoly over digital ads matters so much for the future of digital news. @checkmyads.org shares more: www.usvgoogleads.com/trial-update...

The European Commission is weighing whether the Digital Markets Act adequately covers integrated AI or if explicit inclusion is needed. Tech Policy Press fellow @megafreda.bsky.social explores the growing push to bring these systems firmly under its scope.

Glad to see it ---> www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

NEW: @maxvonthun.bsky.social and Claire Lavin (@openmarkets.bsky.social) argue that the European Commission must revise its merger guidelines to emphasize how competition policy can protect goals beyond prices, including innovation, security, and democracy.

"Each big tech company needs a global monopoly in AI to sustain their success and market value. They are not all going to get one." Important set of warnings from Roger McNamee in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's amazing to see people respond to the censorship of #Kimmel and #Colbert. Now, we want to help people understand that the culture of deregulation going back to the 1980s got us today's media environment: highly consolidated & susceptible to anti-democratic control.

The time couldn't be more urgent for a convening on "The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power..." Join us & @article19.bsky.social, 15-16 October, in Brussels or via livestream: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

If you're wondering why major media companies are folding to Trump administration censorship (see cancellations of Kimmel, Colbert), take a look at their plans to grow even larger and more powerful. @poynterinstitute.bsky.social www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Our Food Program manager @clairek.bsky.social spoke with @marketplace.org about the Farm Bill and how the once-bipartisan process for passing it has changed ---> www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

The US Department of Justice and Google will face off today in federal court to argue about what remedies the court should impose to unwind Google’s monopoly in the ad tech market. Karina Montoya from the Center for Journalism & Liberty at the Open Markets Institute breaks down what’s at stake:

OMI legal director Sandeep Vaheesan condemns the SCOTUS ruling on FTC Cmsr. Slaughter here: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Kraft Heinz lost 60% of its stock value since merging, and now it wants to split in search of growth. Getting too big and PE cost-cutting set Kraft Heinz back, but it still dominates many segments of the grocery store, and this split won’t change that. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Where the federal government fails to act, the states will. app.publicnewsservice.org/story/ma-law...

Important read from @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com:

“FCC Chair Carr just kicked the Trump Administration’s campaign against American liberty into overdrive." Read Barry Lynn's full response to Disney ABC pulling #Kimmel: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

CJL Director @courtneyr.bsky.social joined the @dawnnews.tv DigiPod team to discuss the real world harms caused by our reliance on "self-regulation" from the makers of AI chatbots. Catch the full conversation here: youtu.be/Wt_sbumFGPo?...

Congratulations to Sandeep Vaheesan for being honored as an @epic.org Champion of Freedom. epic.org/sept15/

And there it is, this would take the studios from 5 to 4, almost certainly kill one of the streamers (Paramount+ or HBO Max). And you have a White House that is forcing a conservative minder on Paramount/CBS already, this would add CNN to their stable. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

"Billionaire media mogul David Ellison’s effort to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery should send chills to the whole media industry and Americans across the country..." Statement from @courtneyr.bsky.social on LinkedIn:

It's pretty clear what this is: A mega-merger designed to consolidate power over news and information. Even a half serious anti-trust enforcer would object to a Paramount-Skydance-Warner Bros.-Discovery merger.

Not a whole lot.

#Policy 💬 🖋️ EPD joins the @openmarkets.bsky.social and over 50 civil society organisations and independent experts in a letter to President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, calling for a firm and united approach to the Trump administration's escalating attacks on the EU's sovereign digital rulebook.

If you're at #ONA25 today, join this high level conversation with @courtneyr.bsky.social and industry experts from @tollbit.com, Sphere Labs, and ScalePost to get ahead of the curve and learn about the emerging AI content licensing market.

NEW - A must-read piece from former AAG for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter on the harms of Judge Mehta's lack of suitable remedies to address Google's monopoly behavior in search.

New - Advertising exchange PubMatic sues Google for harms that resulted from Google's adtech monopoly. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🚨 Big news. Read our reaction: “As today’s announcement makes clear, ‘only the divestment by Google of part of its services would address the situation of inherent conflicts of interest.’ We fully expect the Commission to stand by its words. www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

New Poll: American voters prefer populism to corporate abundance. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

HAPPENING NOW: The House Judiciary is holding a hearing on supposed "censorship" of Americans who use Big Tech platforms by the EU. Read our statement from Executive Director Barry Lynn on the American values at the heart of the EU's laws:

“After making the legally sound and morally courageous decision to find Google liable for illegal monopolistic practices, Judge Mehta apparently decided that actually enforcing the law was more than he could stomach." Barry Lynn's full statement: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Statement from Executive Director Barry Lynn on the woefully inadequate remedies imposed on Google following the finding it has illegally monopolized the search market:

"Debunking the Abundance Agenda," our new report with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social, exposes how the Abundance agenda consists of dangerous deference to corporate power, deregulation, and trickle-down thinking. Read it here: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Trump's illegal attempt to fire Robert Primus from the Surface Transportation Board is blatant corruption—greasing the wheels for a rail merger that will consolidate power, harm workers, and jack up prices. We are grateful this ideologically diverse coalition is standing up to oligarchy.

This administration is trying to blackmail our closest allies to protect Big Tech’s profits and power. Americans want leaders who are willing to fight back against these oligarchs. Infringing on the sovereign rights of the democracies that are taking up that fight is corruption, plain and simple.

🚨NEW REPORT🚨 The "abundance agenda" claims to offer prosperity for all. In reality, it props up corporate power, deregulation, & inequality. Today, we published a comprehensive critique + alternative vision with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social. READ: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Want to lower costs? Challenge corporate power & misconduct, not Fed independence.

The deal between Nexstar and Tegna is blatantly illegal, but this administration is changing the rules to help big corporations monopolize even more of our local media. CJL joined a coalition of free press, civil liberties, and labor groups to fight back. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

More of this 👇 thehill.com/homenews/med...

“Any revival of the American shipbuilding industry will require a large-scale, comprehensive effort from government, industry, and labor. It will require coordination, innovation, and a national sense of urgency—the kind we haven’t seen in decades.” washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/20/c...

Executive Director Barry Lynn joined the Radius of Reason podcast to talk about the way tech monopolies have undermined our democracy and are enabling this administration’s attacks on our institutions—and how we can fight back. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Open Markets is proud to join the coalition supporting this bill. Hardworking Americans deserve to know how much a gallon of milk is going to cost without algorithms using their sensitive data to price gouge them in real time.

"According to Progressive Grocer’s 10th annual Grocery Tech Trends Study, ESLs are among the top technologies that grocers said they are planning to add." ...Precisely why we support legislation like the Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores Act: progressivegrocer.com/grocery-tech...

There's an incredible opportunity in the Google ad tech remedies trial in the US to get newsrooms the revenue #BigTech has taken from them: restitution. Find our letter to DOJ with @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social & @publicknowledge.bsky.social here: www.journalismliberty.org/publications...

Absolutely right! If we want effective freight rail that helps us rebuild American manufacturing, we must revitalize regulations like common carrier that once stopped Gilded Age robber barons and financiers from crushing their competition -- and quality, affordability, and access with it.

If search and social media platforms eroded newsrooms' ability to bring in advertising dollars for their content, AI-driven search is likely the end of the road. We must work with policymakers & news orgs to ensure there is ample compensation for journalism. www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-drive...

This week, our legal team filed an amicus brief calling on the Supreme Court to take up the case challenging Merck’s deceptive practices to preserve its mumps vaccine monopoly. Find the brief here: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Even as US judges may soon break Google + Meta monopolies, these lawsuits leave their harmful business models - surveillance advertising - largely untouched. More from Sandeep Vaheesan @newrepublic.com: newrepublic.com/article/1989...

FTC: Meta's $14.3 billion acquisition of a 49% stake in Scale AI needs your attention. As do other AI deals like it. www.mediapost.com/publications...

Talk about "waste, fraud, and abuse:" www.reuters.com/sustainabili...