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January 12, 2021 — Economic Liberties’ Research Director Matt Stoller joined the Hill Rising to discuss why breaking up Big Tech monopolies and taking on Section 230 is key to addressing the root cause of toxicity on internet platforms.

January 12, 2021 — Poynter turned to Economic Liberties’ Research Director Matt Stoller to break down our new “Courage to Learn” report, which shows how Google and Facebook’s advertising monopoly harms online publishing, threatens local newspapers and blocks market competition in news and media.

January 12, 2021 — Reuters dug into Economic Liberties’ “Courage to Learn Report” and talked with Executive Director Sarah Miller about the ways the Biden administration can learn from the past and break the power of Big Tech and other monopolies.

January 12, 2020—Economic Liberties’ new, landmark report, “The Courage to Learn,” lays out a comprehensive antitrust and competition policy agenda for the new Congress and Biden Administration, while making a deeply researched case for breaking from the failed consumer welfare approach that undermined antitrust and competition policy when progressive enforcers were last in power.

January 11, 2020 - The American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement in response to news that Staples, owned by private equity giant Sycamore Partners, has made a bid to acquire Office Depot for $2.1 billion.