So-Called “Chamber of Progress” Aims To Avoid Break-Ups By Trading Political Favors 

Washington, D.C. – Big Tech is making a new and concerted effort to bamboozle lawmakers through a front group, the American Economic Liberties Project warned Monday.

“Union busters who facilitated a right-wing attack on the U.S. Capitol want progress for their own power and profit – nothing more,” Economic Liberties’ Executive Director Sarah Miller said. “They’ve long co-opted social justice language to camouflage their intentions and this is yet another example of it.”

The new group, which calls itself the Chamber of Progress, explicitly intends to borrow from the co-opting playbook pioneered by Big Tobacco and Big Oil in the past. The industry-backed organization plans to make an opening play for influence with Democrats by showing support for key voting-rights reforms, its leader told Morning Consult.

Senior staff also used the group’s launch-day media splash to spin last week’s Energy & Commerce hearing as evidence that lawmakers have no stomach for breaking up Big Tech. But polling indicates that the public increasingly agrees with the core arguments for breaking up the monopolies.

View Economic Liberties’ Big Tech Abuse Tracker here.

See Economic Liberties’ statement on the importance on H.R. 1 here.

Learn more about Economic Liberties here.

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The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.