Rescuing Restaurants: How to Protect Restaurants, Workers, and Communities from Predatory Delivery App Corporations
September 18, 2020 — Authored by Senior Fellow Maureen Tkacik, "Rescuing Restaurants" reveals how predatory delivery apps have used abusive, deceptive, and often illegal practices to take control of the restaurant industry and lays out federal and local solutions to aid in creating healthy restaurant markets.
NBC News: Facebook spread rumors about arsonists setting fires in Oregon. It’s part of their business model.
September 17, 2020 — In an exclusive piece for NBC News, Economic Liberties’ Director of State and Local Policy Pat Garafolo explained why structural and regulatory changes are needed to stop Facebook from supercharging misinformation and propaganda.
The Appeal: Last Week’s Big Tech Antitrust Hearings Sent An Unmistakable Message – Change is in the Air for America’s Corporate Giants
August 6, 2020 —Economic Liberties' Executive Director Sarah Miller published a piece in the Appeal about the growing desire to break with the 1970s-era, hands-off antitrust ideology that has caused extreme economic concentration.
American Compass: Big Tech Reveals the Flaw in Citizens United
August 6, 2020 — On the heels of the House Antitrust Subcomittee’s big tech hearing, Economic Liberties’ Research Director Matt Stoller published a piece in the American Compass that spells out why conservatives should support the break up of big tech monopolies.
Confronting America’s Concentration Crisis: A Ledger of Harms and Framework for Advancing Economic Liberty for All
August 6, 2020 — Economic Liberties' “Ledger of Harms" compiles research showing the range of ways concentrated corporate power harms families and society and an agenda for breaking this dangerous power.