Close to Home: How the Power of Facebook and Google Affects Local Communities
August 31, 2020 — Authored by Pat Garofalo, "Close to Home" analyzes the ways Facebook and Google have harmed local businesses and destroyed local journalism, exposes the political strategies they use to extract subsidies from local communities, and details solutions – at both the federal and local level – to readjust the legal underpinning of this dangerous business model.
Fortune: Why are local governments paying Amazon to destroy Main Street?
August 23, 2020 — Economic Liberties’ Director of State and Local Policy Pat Garofalo explained in Fortune how cities and states are hurting their own small, local businesses by subsidizing Amazon.
ProMarket: Tech Monopolies Are the Reason the US Now Has a TikTok Problem
August 7, 2020 — By revealing Facebook’s complicated history with TikTok, Economic Liberties’ National Security Advisor Lucas Kunce showed why big tech monopolies are structurally unable to defend American interests and should never be trusted with that task in ProMarket.
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.