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Oct 15, 2025

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The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI

Oct 15, 2025

Events

**The Open Markets Institute** and **ARTICLE 19** hosted on **October 15th & 16th** a convening of high-level leading thinkers, lawmakers, technologists, and advocates who discussed the direct and growing threats to our democracies and basic liberties posed by today’s dominant online communications platforms, the rise of AI, and interference by foreign states.

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Oct 15, 2025

Events

## Featured

Publications

Oct 22, 2025

Tech Policy Press - Why Europe’s Resistance to Big Tech Matters for the Future of Democracy

Oct 22, 2025

CJL director **Courtney Radsch** argues that amid the failure to regulate its own tech firms, the U.S. must not be allowed to undermine European efforts to regain sovereignty over their information systems and resist domination by Big Tech.

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Oct 22, 2025

Oct 22, 2025

Reports & White Papers, Press Releases

New Expert Brief Details the Enduring Power of U.S. Antitrust Laws for Confronting Today’s Monopolies

Oct 22, 2025

Reports & White Papers, Press Releases

*The Enduring Force of the Federal Antitrust Laws*, authored by senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley, lays out the most effective strategies to challenge unfair practices and curb corporate domination under current federal laws.

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Oct 22, 2025

Reports & White Papers, Press Releases

Oct 21, 2025

Op-Eds

Tech Policy Press - How Europe Can Expand Digital Trade to Challenge Big Tech’s Anti-Regulatory Push

Oct 21, 2025

Op-Eds

Industrial policy program manager **Audrey Stienon** offers the analysis on Trump’s trade coercion amplifying Big Tech’s long-standing use of trade policy to erode national sovereignty and entrenches corporate power over global digital regulation.

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Oct 21, 2025

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# Shining a light on monopoly power and its dangers to democracy.

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## OP-EDS & ARTICLES

Publications

Oct 21, 2025

Audrey Stienon

Tech Policy Press - How Europe Can Expand Digital Trade to Challenge Big Tech’s Anti-Regulatory Push

Oct 21, 2025

Audrey Stienon

Industrial policy program manager **Audrey Stienon** offers the analysis on Trump’s trade coercion amplifying Big Tech’s long-standing use of trade policy to erode national sovereignty and entrenches corporate power over global digital regulation.

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Oct 21, 2025

Audrey Stienon

Oct 9, 2025

Open Markets

Washington Monthly - Trump Promised a Shipbuilding Boom. He’s Sinking It Instead

Oct 9, 2025

Open Markets

Open Markets Institute’s transportation analyst **Arnav Rao** published an article on Trump’s faltering shipbuilding agenda, arguing that the president has “gutted the very offices, funding streams, and foreign partnerships” needed to rebuild U.S.

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Oct 9, 2025

Open Markets

Sep 25, 2025

Max von Thun

Pro Market - The EU Must Revise Its Merger Guidelines To Strengthen Innovation, Security, and Democracy

Sep 25, 2025

Max von Thun

**Max von Thun**, Europe Director at the Open Markets Institute, co-authored a piece with fellow **Claire Lavin** urging the European Commission to revise its merger guidelines. They argue that competition policy must look beyond prices to safeguard innovation, security, and democracy—ensuring a stronger and more resilient European Union.

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Sep 25, 2025

Max von Thun

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Oct 21, 2025

The Corner Newsletter: OMI’s Democracy Conference in Brussels & Google’s ad tech remedies trial (October 21st, 2025)

Oct 21, 2025

In this issue, we recap our 2-day Future of Democracy conference in Brussels and analyze the recently concluded remedies trial for Google’s monopoly over digital advertising.

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Oct 21, 2025

Oct 7, 2025

The Corner Newsletter: The FCC’s Delete the Public Interest Initiative (October 8th, 2025)

Oct 7, 2025

In this issue, we explore how a new initiative from the Federal Communications Commission will only further consolidate the broadcast media industry.

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Oct 7, 2025

Sep 23, 2025

The Corner Newsletter: The Flaws in President Trump’s Industrial Strategy ( September 23rd, 2025)

Sep 23, 2025

In this issue, we explore how President Trump’s strategy of taking equity stakes in companies critical to national security is geared to fail. And we look forward to our October 15 and 16 conference on the US-Europe conflict over Free Speech and Democracy.

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Sep 23, 2025

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Oct 15, 2025

The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI

Oct 15, 2025

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May 23, 2025

Innovation beyond Big Tech

May 23, 2025

May 23, 2025

## Videos

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Jun 10, 2025

IBA - Protecting democracy

Jun 10, 2025

Jun 10, 2025

May 28, 2025

Democracy Maine - Let's Talk About Digital Threats to Democracy

May 28, 2025

May 28, 2025

***EXCLUSIVE REPORT***

# Stopping big tech
from becoming big ai

With AI rapidly becoming a cornerstone of the global economy, our report with Mozilla warns that society stands at a critical crossroads: One path leads to a future where AI is controlled by a small number of powerful corporations, threatening innovation, consumer privacy, individual liberty and democracy. The other path, the report advocates, leads to a diverse and competitive market where AI is developed by a wide range of participants – public, private, and non-profit – and serves the broader public interest.

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## What They’re Saying

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### “A tiny nonprofit that’s becoming a lightning rod for growing anger and frustration with Big Tech in America.”
### ***\-Quartz***

### “Open Markets is doing revolutionary and essential work when monopoly looms over American life.”
### ***\- VICE***

### “The Open Markets group led by Lynn contains many of the most respected voices in an increasingly prominent discussion about technology and telecom monopolies, and its findings about corporate consolidation and monopolistic power have been extremely influential in turning antitrust into an important policy issue.”
### **\- *New York Magazine***

### “There have been few think tank teams as effective as Barry Lynn’s \[and the Open Market Institute’s\].”
### ***\- The Atlantic***

### “The whole idea of a think tank is to cultivate ideas that have an actual impact on The Debate. Barry Lynn \[and the Open Markets Institute\] has done that better than anyone.”
### **\- *Chris Hayes, MSNBC***

### “The past couple of years have seen a resurgence of political interest in antitrust policy, which is increasingly seen as a potential solution to America’s current dilemma of high corporate profits and slow economic growth…It’s fair to say that the primary intellectual mover behind all of this has been Barry Lynn \[and the Open Markets Institute\].”
### ***\- Vox***

### “It's difficult to overstate Mr. Lynn’s \[and Open Market Institute’s\] influence in raising concerns about the market dominance of Google, as well as other tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook.”
### **\- *The New York Times***

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