September 11, 2023 — In advance of the highly-anticipated U.S. v Google antitrust trial against Google’s monopoly power over search, the American Economic Liberties Project today released a new policy brief, Google Search Trial: A New Era Beckons to shed light on how the results of the trial will affect the market for commercial artificial
September 7, 2023 — A coalition of more than 20 civil society and advocacy organization today launched USvGoogle.org, a new website to provide crucial information and updates on the upcoming antitrust trial against Google’s search monopoly.
in the U.S. and Abroad: The “Digital Trade” Secrecy Ploy highlights how industry is pushing “digital trade” rules that forbid government access to source code or even detailed descriptions of algorithms, which are the tools needed to pre-screen the existing automated decision systems associated with biased policing and prosecution, employment discrimination, intrusive worker surveillance, and
judicial reliance on “unsound economic theories.” In so doing, the FTC committed to working with the DOJ to provide guidance for vertical mergers that better reflects market real ities, particularly as to various features of modern firms, including in digital markets. The FTC’s challenge to Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision, the largest proposed
to address them. “They are sophisticated, they’re scary, people are getting in trouble because of them. In everything from social security to buying timeshares, it is a real ly big problem...I would love to work whomever to do something about that issue.” “We’re also seeing this troubling national trend in which private equity firms have