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Washington, D.C. — The American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement in response to reporting from Bloomberg, which revealed that Uber, the parent company of Uber Eats, is seeking to acquire Postmates for $2.65 billion.

Washington, D.C.—  The American Economic Liberties Project today released “Caveat Emptor: Reversing the Anti-Competitive and Over-Pricing Policies That Plague Government Contracting,”  a new report detailing how the government contracting process has been transformed to the almost exclusive benefit of corporate interests. The report comes as Congress debates the National Defense Authorization Act, which sets out defense contracting policy.

Washington, D.C.— As Facebook and Google allow dangerous conspiracy theories and violent rhetoric to go viral on their platforms, the American Economic Liberties Project today released “Ending our Click-Bait Culture: Why Progressives Must Break the Power of Facebook and Google,” a new policy quick take that explains why antitrust enforcement, combined with changing the rules that protect Facebook and Google’s business model, is the only way to sustainably address their range of harms. 

May 28, 2020 - The American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement in response to reports that President Trump will be issuing an executive order regarding Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Washington, D.C. — The American Economic Liberties Project and the Open Markets Institute today submitted a comment to the Federal Communications Commission, encouraging the agency to document the importance of decentralized markets, measure and describe market structures, and maintain local media ownership rules in its 2020 Communications Marketplace Report.