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Fox Business

Social media giants scramble to control Charlie Kirk assassination videos after Utah shooting

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 09/19/2025

Fox Business cited CEI’s expert on content moderation Jessica Melugin, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Technology and Innovation, told FOX Business…

Letters

CEI Joins CFIF in Coalition Letter Urging FCC to Preserve Free Market in Broadcast Negotiations

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 09/09/2025

Dear Chairman Carr: We, the undersigned conservative, free-market and pro-innovation organizations, write in support of your efforts to reduce government regulation and involvement in the…

Innovation

Testimony

CEI’s Jessica Melugin speaks on The U.K.’s Online Safety Act

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 09/03/2025

Chair Jordan, ranking member Raskin, and distinguished members of the House Judiciary Committee, thank you for the opportunity to submit written testimony to this critical…

Tech and Telecom

News Release

Google Ruling Rightly Rejects Most DOJ Demands, But Appeals Still Warranted

  • Jessica Melugin
  • 09/02/2025

A federal court largely rejected DOJ efforts to break up Google, declining to spin off its Chrome browser or impose sweeping payment bans. But the…

Business and Government

Civitas Institute

Current Antitrust Actions Endanger America’s AI Edge

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 07/29/2025

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near one” writes J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit. But that’s precisely…

Tech and Telecom

News Release

CEI experts react to White House AI Action Plan

  • Clyde Wayne Crews, Jessica Melugin, Paige Lambermont, Ryan Young
  • 07/23/2025

Today, the White House released “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan”, a multi-faceted policy document intended to help the United States keep its…

Tech and Telecom

Letters

CEI Joins ATR: Applauding U.S. Action on DST, Calling for Tougher EU Trade Terms

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 07/16/2025

Dear President Trump, Thank you for protecting American innovators from abuse by the Canadian government through their Digital Services Tax (DST). We also applaud your…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

For the sake of user privacy, keep Google search remedies narrow and germane

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/29/2025

The movement in the Biden and Trump administrations of antitrust officials away from consumer welfare and towards a federal judiciary of active regulation is on…

Tech and Telecom

Comment

CEI Comments on Technology Platform Censorship

  • By: Alex Reinauer, Jessica Melugin
  • 05/21/2025

RE: Request for Public Comment Regarding Technology Platform Censorship Docket No.: FTC-2025-0023 Introduction The authors of this submission would like to thank the Federal Trade…

Antitrust

Blog

A light in the darkness: Federal preemption for AI regulation

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/13/2025

The joy of federal preemption may soon be upon us. The House Energy and Commerce Committee included a ten-year moratorium on state AI regulation…

Innovation

Blog

Otherwise Objectionable episode 6: ‘The Rest of the World’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/23/2025

The sixth episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, focuses on…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

News Release

Decision in Google antitrust case a major blow for online competitiveness: CEI analysis

  • Jessica Melugin, Ryan Young
  • 04/17/2025

On Thursday, a federal court ruled that Google violated antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly over online advertising. CEI experts caution about the precedent and…

Antitrust

Washington Examiner

FTC’s antitrust crusade against Meta contradicts key parts of the Trump agenda

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/17/2025

We’re all about to find out if it’s the White House or what’s left of the administrative state that’s calling the shots on…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

Otherwise Objectionable episode 5: ‘Blowback, and the Dust Settles’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/15/2025

The fifth episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, recounts how the…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Blog

Otherwise Objectionable episode 4: ‘The Solution’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/08/2025

The fourth episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, picks up…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Testimony

Jessica Melugin Testimony before House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/02/2025

Chair Fitzgerald, ranking member Nadler, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for holding this hearing and inviting me to testify today. My name…

Antitrust

Blog

Otherwise Objectionable episode 3: ‘Law and Disorder’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/01/2025

The third episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, moves beyond…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Blog

Otherwise Objectionable episode 2: ‘The Dawn of the Internet’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/25/2025

The second episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, focuses on…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Los Angeles Times

The Trump administration schooled Europe on free speech. Why ignore the lesson at home?

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/18/2025

Vice President JD Vance’s wise words to Europe about U.S. commitments to free speech are on a collision course with some of what’s happening stateside.

Innovation

Blog

Otherwise Objectionable Podcast episode 1: ‘The Most Misunderstood Law on the Internet’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/18/2025

Otherwise Objectionable is the brand-new limited series podcast that tells the true story of how a previously-obscure defamation law, Section 230 of the 1996…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

National Review

Trump Transition at FTC Is No Reagan Revolution

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/12/2025

Don’t call it a “comeback.” Those hoping for a Reagan-era-like return to economic sanity or regulatory humility in antitrust at the Federal Trade Commission…

Business and Government

Letters

CEI joins the Black Rock Group to support Make America Competitive Again.

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 02/27/2025

Dear Speaker Johnson and Majority Leader Thune, On behalf of the Competitiveness Coalition, we write today to urge you and your colleagues to support President…

Business and Government

Products

Free to Prosper: Telecommunications

  • By: Brian A. Rankin, Jessica Melugin
  • 01/14/2025

Improved Internet connectivity is essential to promote innovation, reduce socioeconomic inequality at home, and improve America’s global economic competitiveness abroad. To further connectivity…

Products

Free to Prosper: Artificial intelligence

  • By: James Broughel, Jessica Melugin
  • 01/14/2025

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) presents both significant opportunities and challenges for US policymakers. While AI offers the potential to revolutionize…

Products

Free to Prosper: Online speech

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 01/14/2025

Online speech is under attack on two fronts. The first front is government chipping away or repealing the protections granted by Section 230…

Products

Free to Prosper: Antitrust

  • By: Alex Reinauer, Clyde Wayne Crews, Iain Murray, Jessica Melugin, Ryan Young
  • 01/14/2025

There is a global push to strengthen and broaden antitrust laws. American technology companies are the primary targets. In the US, this fight…

News Release

Meta’s new content moderation is a step in the right direction: CEI analysis

  • Jessica Melugin
  • 01/07/2025

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced major changes to its content moderation system today. The company says it aims to allow as…

Tech and Telecom

News Release

Report: FTC used insufficient analysis in its investigation of Pharmacy Benefit Managers 

  • Alex Reinauer, Jessica Melugin
  • 12/12/2024

A new Competitive Enterprise Institute report delves into major problems with a Federal Trade Commission report critical of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). PBMs are specialized…

Business and Government

Study

FTC Flunks Interim Report

  • By: Alex Reinauer, Jessica Melugin
  • 12/12/2024

Introduction The Federal Trade Commission published its interim staff report on Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) on July 9, 2024, after launching an initial inquiry in…

News Release

Kroger-Albertsons merger blocked by federal judge: CEI analysis

  • Jessica Melugin, Ryan Young
  • 12/10/2024

Today, a federal judge sided with the Federal Trade Commission in its lawsuit to stop a merger between Kroger and Albertsons. CEI experts weigh in…

Antitrust

National Review

Please, Somebody Google ‘Hubris’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 11/29/2024

The pretense of knowledge is on full display in the Department of Justice’s proposed remedies for the Google trial. The government’s…

Antitrust

Blog

A blueprint for digital censorship in the US?

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 11/14/2024

Internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), as revealed by digital censorship journalist Matt Taibbi, showed that the group’s primary…

Free Speech

Reason

The Justice Department’s Proposals for Breaking Up Google’s Dominance Won’t Work

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 10/18/2024

Reason quoted CEI’s expert on antitrust atmosphere Jessica Melugin, director of the Center for Technology and Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, tells Reason that a…

Free Speech

Blog

Searching for a remedy that makes sense

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 10/15/2024

The Department of Justice recently sent its proposed remedies to the federal judge who found Google guilty of illegally monopolizing web search. Specifically,…

Antitrust

The New York Times

Inside Harris’s Big Economic Pitch

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 09/25/2024

The New York Times quoted CEI’s expert on Harris’s Economic Pitch While a similar argument didn’t sway regulators in JetBlue’s attempted acquisition of Spirit, financial industry…

Financial Regulation

News Release

Biden DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Visa unfounded

  • Jessica Melugin, John Berlau
  • 09/24/2024

The Biden Justice Department today announced an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, alleging the company illegally monopolized the debit card market by enticing merchants away from…

Antitrust

News Release

Judge gets Google antitrust ruling wrong

  • Jessica Melugin, Ryan Young
  • 08/05/2024

A federal judge ruled today that Google violated antitrust law, declaring “Google is a monopolist” in online search. Competitive Enterprise Institute antitrust, legal, and economic…

Tech and Telecom

Reason

Senate To Vote on Web Censorship Bill Disguised as Kids Safety

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 07/24/2024

Reason cites Jessica Melugin on KOSA safety flaws “KOSA would trigger mandatory uploading of government id’s, face scans or social security numbers of…

Consumer Freedom

The Washington Times

KOSA is a poor substitute for parenting

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 07/23/2024

Good parenting was always a lot of work, but guarding kids’ online mental health has added to the parental load. Not every problem has a…

Tech and Telecom

News Release

CEI to Recognize Entrepreneurship and George Will’s Promethean Contributions at Julian L. Simon Memorial Dinner in September

  • Jessica Melugin
  • 07/11/2024

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is pleased to announce award winners and speakers for the annual Julian L. Simon Memorial Award Dinner on…

Blog

Missing the economists in FTC’s latest PBM study

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 07/10/2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its not-so-objectively titled interim report on Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs): Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug…

Eye on FTC

News Release

New FTC study on drug costs fails to conduct empirical analysis of market conditions

  • Jessica Melugin
  • 07/09/2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) release a new study today claiming Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are responsible for higher drug costs. FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak…

Health and Safety

News Release

Supreme Court decision on state social media laws portends free speech victories

  • Jessica Melugin
  • 07/01/2024

Today, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Moody v. NetChoice & CCIA and NetChoice & CCIA v. Paxton, two related cases reviewing state…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

National Review

Baseless Federal Investigations Would Stifle America’s Pioneering AI Industry

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/21/2024

The Biden administration is going beyond antitrust enforcement in AI and is instead trying to predict the future of the industry itself. Reports indicate…

Antitrust

Blog

Everyone agrees we need more spectrum, so why is Congress making it complicated?

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/17/2024

Politics prioritized over policy is de rigueur these days, but it shouldn’t be for spectrum auction reauthorization. The importance to the US economy and to…

Tech and Telecom

News Release

AI antitrust investigations go against U.S. innovation: CEI analysis

  • Jessica Melugin
  • 06/06/2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) announced new antitrust investigations into investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) made by Microsoft, OpenAI, and…

Antitrust

Wall Street Journal

For the Sake of Free Speech, Keep Section 230

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/23/2024

The only remedy Reps. McMorris Rodgers and Pallone Jr. offer for online harms is to turn the plaintiffs’ bar loose on tech companies, a curious…

Tech and Telecom

News Release

DOJ’s suit to breakup Live Nation-Ticketmaster will not lead to lower prices for entertainment

  • Jessica Melugin
  • 05/23/2024

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit today against Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, alleging anticompetitive behavior. The DOJ lawsuit seeks to…

Antitrust

Wall Street Journal

For the Sake of Free Speech, Keep Section 230

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/23/2024

The only remedy Reps. McMorris Rodgers and Pallone Jr. offer for online harms is to turn the plaintiffs’ bar loose on tech companies, a curious…

Tech and Telecom

National Review

Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Section 230

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/22/2024

The House Energy and Commerce Committee released a draft bill to sunset the online liability shield commonly known as Section 230. The proposal is…

Tech and Telecom

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