Investigating concentrated power over digital infrastructure & AI in order to promote the free flow of information (@knightfdn support w/in @OpenMarkets)
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Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
Walmart and Target got orders from the Trump-Vance FTC. Amazon, the biggest online retailer in America, didn’t.
Amazon is a ballroom donor.
FTC demands Walmart, Uber, Delta and others hand over data on personalized pricing: Reuters cnbc.com/2026/10/28/ftc-walm…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: In less than 12 hours, a group of ex-DOGE cyber researchers were able to penetrate Anthropic’s systems using AI agents — including Slack channels where the most sensitive models are discussed.
This is just weeks after
Anthropic whistleblower Joseph Coxon charged the company w/launching “a hubristic gamble” from a “private company’s Slack.”
Read our story here (gift link):
wapo.st/4smNlsC
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
Meta has built a trillion-dollar business using willfully unfair, anticompetitive, deceptive, and unconscionable practices. The unilateral change to its use of business website content buried in its TOS is but the latest example. courtneyradsch.substack.com/…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to someone else.
A network of fake news sites seeded messaging about state and local candidates that AI answers picked up on.
My story on how the AI midterms are going: theatlantic.com/technology/2…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
Starlink has become critical military infrastructure. But it remains under the control of Elon Musk, a billionaire who can decide who gets access and on what terms.
That's far too much power for one private company (& CEO) to wield.
New from @MaxvonThun: substack.com/home/post/p-221…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
The courts had an opportunity to restore competition and curb one of the world's most powerful monopolies.
Instead, they left Google's empire intact.
@BarryLynn calls the remedies decisions acts of “cowardice." @techpolicypress
techpolicy.press/ai-hype-hel…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
If you're a business or artist with intellectual property, watch the clock.
10 days until Meta claims the right to scrape your website to develop its AI. Your consent? Apparently unnecessary. All it takes is someone sharing a link on Facebook or Instagram - or you using Meta's services.
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
This is exactly the kind of AI financing risk (and exposure to the wider economy) we examine in our new report with @RealBankReform, out today: openmarketsinstitute.org/pub…
“If CoreWeave is borrowing at 9% and the best return they can get off of that is a 5% return, it doesn’t matter how much they scale: They’re destroying value at every turn…That’s especially true for the type of neocloud that funds their entire investment based on debt. The more leverage we use to build data centers, the more risk we’re bringing into the system.”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
William Randolph Hearst ran his politics through 25 newspapers. Barry Lynn, executive director of the @openmarkets, argues the same move is even more powerful today.
From a panel on money in politics at the 2026 @StiglerCenter Annual Conference. Watch the full panel below 👇
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
New in @monthly: Daniel Hanley & Arnav Rao argue that AI companies do not need an antitrust exemption & should instead use a broadly representative, government-supervised standards body to set clear safeguards for frontier AI development. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/1…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
We just sent a comment letter urging the FTC to go beyond its policy proposal that would require companies to disclose when & how they use surveillance pricing...
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
Eventually our entire economy will be structured around generating advertising revenue for big tech companies.
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
"By settling with Paramount, the states’ attorneys general reinforce the dangerous message that there are few real checks left on the people who aim to control every aspect of American life and culture."
Statement from Barry Lynn:
openmarketsinstitute.org/pub…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
Some news: USA Today is cutting staff and reorganizing its audience team. The changes are designed to address the depreciation of search traffic, which is “under pressure” as “platforms are increasingly keeping user experiences to themselves.” The internal memo:
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
Our elections are being flooded by AI Super PAC money. Learn about it in the story from @corbett_jessica
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
"Google's durable dominance wasn't inevitable; it was purchased. If the court allows those payments to continue, the remedy will leave the monopoly largely intact instead of restoring genuine competition."
openmarketsinstitute.org/pub…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
Instacart REALLY wants to be able to charge you more when you're stressed.
@JasonBeeferman with a story on how big tech companies are going all out in a lobbying blitz in New York, doing whatever they can to get Hochul to veto a law banning surveillance pricing.
The article about it is sponsored by Instacart with a special note from Instacart at the top, middle, and bottom.
politico.com/newsletters/new…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
BREAKING: A judge just granted a temporary restraining order against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.
This means that the merger is officially PAUSED.
That's a WIN thanks to the state attorneys general who stood up and pushed back.
Let's keep up the fight.
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
The FCC just announced it will move forward with its unlawful effort to hand control of the public airwaves to billionaire buddies of this administration.
This will destroy local newsrooms, silence community reporting, and drive-up costs for American families.
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
Just read the complaint. This is a strong, traditional lawsuit - no frills, no untested theories. Just the recognition of the obvious fact that if you combine two of the biggest five studios, they're going to feel less pressure to make new films. If you merge one company that owns an alphabet soup of channels with another company that owns an alphabet soup of channels, people will pay for that on their cable bill. The billionaires who own Paramount win, you lose, your local movie theater loses, and all the people who make film and television lose, too. I think @AGRobBonta, @NewYorkStateAG James and their colleagues will win this, and anyone on Wall Street who is pricing this otherwise should take a moment to read the lawsuit.
