Center for Media & Digital Governance

Investigating concentrated power over digital infrastructure & AI in order to promote the free flow of information (@knightfdn support w/in @OpenMarkets)

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

CMDG was at the forefront of urging the CMA to adopt remedies to level the playing field with publishers in the transition to AI-enabled search.

Now we urge regulators to ensure that the new requirements produce real-world outcomes, not merely procedural compliance.

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BIG NEWS in the UK as its competition regulator announces Google will need to adhere to new conduct requirements in their use of publisher content for AI Overviews.

Our reactions: https://t.co/avXaGfajtP

[Bloomberg @business]

Alphabet's Google must make changes to its AI-generated search summaries after the UK's antitrust watchdog forced it to give publishers more control over how their content is used https://t.co/VsbEPWZfER

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And find the full report here: https://t.co/Es5ZYM4gQq

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Thanks to @Rebuild_News for allowing us to share our latest report in their newsletter.
"AI’s Licensing Market Is Leaving Independent Journalism Behind". Read it here: https://t.co/OB4dSKmoT3

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Big Tech inserted itself between readers & publishers, buyers & sellers, workers & customers.

Now it is inserting AI agents between you & everything else.

A new report from @Sally_Hubbard asks the defining question of the next internet: Who do AI agents work for?

[Open Markets Institute @openmarkets]

Millions of Americans are beginning to rely on AI agents.

But if those agents are controlled by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, or Meta, whose interests are they really serving?

NEW REPORT from OMI Senior Fellow @Sally_Hubbard: https://t.co/deMd4KtGDI

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Here's a spot-on break-down of our report on how the AI content licensing market risks repeating the same policy mistakes from the social media & search consolidation era.
Thanks to @NiemanLab @decka227 for the coverage. https://t.co/xj8e3FpESm

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If you're concerned with your legacy, if you don't want to be remembered for helping dismantle democracy, focus on making markets actually work for the institutions we need to keep alive, like the free press.

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This @JeffBezos interview was deeply misleading on so many counts, but chief among them is this: newspapers aren't going to magically become profitable unless we address the system that allows dominant platforms to stand between the news and revenue.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

SORKIN: Why lay people off at the Post? Why fire people?

BEZOS: Because the Post needs to be a profitable enterprise that stands on its own two feet

SORKIN: Does it? Some people say it should be a trust

BEZOS: Yes. It's a measure of its relevance. If people aren't paying for our product, it's not a good enough product

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Working to ensure information systems serve democratic life now requires engagement across the full range of technologies, infrastructures, markets & governance frameworks.

Our new name reflects that expanded scope and positions us for the challenges ahead. -- @courtneyr

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Exciting news from us today: We're now the Center for Media & Digital Governance at @openmarkets! https://t.co/IbZkCt2i9l

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Today that threat runs through every layer of the stack, from cloud computing and AI development to satellite communications and data flows, even as media concentration remains an urgent concern.

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TOMORROW: We hope you'll join us & @newsalliance to learn about the emerging AI content marketplace & ways to make it better / fairer for journalists. https://t.co/MgMvtTAUWL

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"This is how democracies decay in the modern age: not always with soldiers in the streets, but through the capture of institutions that shape public discourse."

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"The FTC and FCC are no longer being used as intended: to govern fairness in our markets. They are increasingly being used to shape the information environment itself..."

New, from @courtneyr in @guardian https://t.co/83vt66IfXj

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Our recent deep dive into the emerging AI content marketplace includes a set of concrete recommendations for policymakers to dramatically improve sourcing and compensation in AI.

Join us & @newsalliance Tuesday to discuss it: https://t.co/MgMvtTAUWL

[Mike Sisak @mikesisak]

Another hall of fame class of journalists is leaving @AP — this one involuntarily via layoffs. Reporters in big cities and state capitols. People who’ve broken some of the biggest stories of our time and improved the public’s understanding of important issues. It’s heartbreaking.

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Australia has had a lot of success getting Big Tech to fairly pay for news with its new media bargaining codes. Now, to build on that progress: https://t.co/3ZUFz2CyIu

[Open Markets Institute @openmarkets]

WEBINAR: Join us + @newsalliance on Tuesday, May 20, 2 pm ET for a conversation about the past, present, and future of AI content licensing.

RSVP here: https://t.co/IkfeKCR1ZS

[Open Markets Institute @openmarkets]

A brand new report from our fellow Matt Scherer warns that the AI boom is increasingly showing the hallmarks of a dangerous speculative bubble & urges policymakers to prepare now to resist future demands to bail out major tech companies if the market collapses.