Big Tech Monopolies

In this paper, Economic Liberties lays out a detailed framework of structural and behavioral remedies to address Google's illegal monopolization of search markets and foster a fair, competitive digital ecosystem.

This report, from Economic Liberties and partners, reveals how corporations are using mass surveillance and hidden algorithms to illegally inflate prices for consumers and suppress wages for workers -- and pushes state policymakers to take action.

Following the Trump Administration's de-facto shut down of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, this Economic Liberties fact sheet explains how Big Tech firms stand to benefit from the lack of an effective consumer watchdog.

This policy brief breaks down the harms Amazon inflicts on local communities, including businesses and workers, and lay out proactive policy solutions state lawmakers can adopt to deal with them. Where appropriate, model legislation has been suggested.

"Saving the News from Big Tech" lays out how the JCPA could revitalize local journalism by allowing publishers and broadcasters to bargain collectively with the Big Tech companies over the compensation received for digital advertising revenue.

This fact sheet aims to summarize aspects of Amazon's monopoly power, setting the record straight on its growth over time, the controversies surrounding its business practices, and some of the implications for consumers and the broader marketplace.

This policy brief from the American Economic Liberties Project analyzes how the Google search antitrust trial could impact the future and commercialization of artificial intelligence technologies.

“Understanding Amazon: Making the 21st-Century Gatekeeper Safe for Democracy" describes Amazon’s key lines of businesses, demystifies its unfair and abusive behavior, summarizes some of its most pernicious effects, and offers legislative and regulatory proposals to address Amazon’s interlocking harms.

“The Truth About Google, Facebook, and Small Businesses" exposes the ways Google and Facebook prey on small businesses and inspire terror across the commercial landscape.

“Courage to Learn: Google & Facebook” is a must-read primer about the world's most dangerous duopoly, and includes recommendations for breaking their power.

Courage to Learn: Amazon” is a must-read primer on Amazon that includes key recommendations for breaking its power.

This paper explains the policy choices that allowed Facebook and Google to develop a business model toxic to democracy and civil rights, and explains how a “regulated competition” approach is necessary to rein in these technology giants.

Throughout the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division's trial against Google's search monopoly, Economic Liberties and partners ran a communications war room through US v. Google, which provided timely updates on the trial's events, tracked Google's dirty legal tricks, and housed key resources and information about Google's monopoly power.

Elected officials and enforcers can make Facebook and Google safer for users, businesses, and democracy by breaking them up, regulating them, and holding them accountable for wrongdoing. Together, we will make sure that they do.