According to senior policy analyst Karina Montoya, the "spaghetti football" chart, intended to illustrate industry fluidity, instead caused confusion and potentially undermined Google's argument in the ad tech monopoly trial.
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Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute Director Dr. Courtney Radsch a statement regarding the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal's decision that Google will face trial for using its monopoly control over the online advertising market to divert revenues from publishers.
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Center for Journalism and Liberty director Dr. Courtney Radsch was quoted in an article on preventing the spread of fake news.
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OMI executive director Barry Lynn is quoted on Lina Khan’s origin story, noting that she joined Open Markets fresh out of college.
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Director of Europe & transatlantic partnerships Max von Thun gives updates on the developments of the Digital Markets Act as the EC provides further regulator conditions against Big Tech.
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Open Markets Institute and Europe Director Max von Thun have joined civil society partners in making a public submission to the European Commission on effective compliance with the DMA.
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Open Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun gave oral evidence in the UK Parliament on the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya explains why retail media networks are the next big threat by monopolists for the future of privacy and journalism.
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In this issue, we explore how Big Tech giants like Facebook are reacting to a proposed law in California that would require platforms to pay news publishers a fee for using their content in a bid to revive decimated newsrooms in the state.
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The Open Markets Institute has led a joint submission to the European Commission on the critical role of third parties in implementation and enforcement of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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In this issue, we look at how dominance of cloud services helps Microsoft, Google, and Amazon control Gen AI.
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In this issue, we examine a new Senate bill called the AMERICA act that aims to break Big Tech’s control over advertising technology and platforms.
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn testified on May 3, 2023 at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights on “Competition in the Digital Advertising Ecosystem.”
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In this issue, we explore how Big Tech behemoths have always controlled the destiny of digital media outlets like BuzzFeed News, which shut down last week.
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Open Markets Institute senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley and Center for Journalism & Liberty reporter Karina Montoya write in the year-end issue of Competition Policy International about the ways antitrust enforcement can provide baseline data privacy protections for consumers, despite the lack of a comprehensive federal privacy law.
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The Open Markets Institute, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, and the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, a forum of 75 NGOs, have sent the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a joint submission on the privacy, market, and security hazards of surveillance advertising, urging the agency to act against commercial surveillance and to define “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) as an unfair and deceptive practice.
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Fellow and adviser Johnny Ryan was quoted discussing an independent review of how to reform and strengthen the Data Protection Commission,
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Reporter Karina Montoya writes about a recent decision in California regarding data privacy that might have implications in other states.
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