Fact Sheet: Amazon’s Market Power
September 14, 2023 — 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.
The Google Search Trial: A New Era Beckons
September 11, 2023 — This policy brief from the American Economic Liberties Project analyzes how the upcoming Google search antitrust trial could impact the future and commercialization of artificial intelligence technologies.
Fact Sheet: Google Search Trial
September 5, 2023 — This Economic Liberties fact sheet provides you with everything you need to know ahead of the DOJ's forthcoming antitrust trial on Google's search monopoly.
Quick Take: Why the Judge Was Wrong in FTC vs. Microsoft-Activision
July 11, 2023 — Today, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the Northern District Court of California denied the Federal Trade Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction, which would have halted Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activision until the FTC could review it in full later this year. Here's why the judge's opinion is flawed, and why the FTC was right to block this merger and should continue its administrative case against Microsoft's ambitions to monopolize the future of gaming.
Microsoft’s $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision is Unlawful
June 28, 2023 — Microsoft, a major video game developer through Xbox gaming, announced in January 2022 that it is seeking to acquire rival game developer Activision for $69 billion. Here is why antitrust enforcers at the Federal Trade Commission and UK Competition Markets Authority are challenging this blatantly unlawful deal.