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The American Economic Liberties Project is fighting to realize economic liberty for all, in support of a secure, inclusive democratic society.
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“If an airline knows that you need to get home for a funeral, they may decide to charge you more..."
Following the blowback Delta received for their surveillance pricing plan, Lee Hepner spoke with David Sirota on how corporations are using behavioral data to find your price “pain point.”
Airline giants are attempting to sell their surveillance pricing tactics and personalized pricing as a way to deliver discounts for consumers.
"You can’t have a discount if you don’t have a baseline fare," warns @wjm-air.bsky.social.
Delta is receiving backlash over their plan to use AI to set individualized fares — but this controversial practice is on the rise.
"Just as Big Tech platforms use consumers’ data to serve targeted advertisements, air travel sites use the information to serve targeted pricing."
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“Exploitation phase.”
That’s what the company behind Delta’s new AI pricing tool calls the part where it figures out exactly how much it can squeeze out of every consumer.
Surveillance pricing is here — and it’s being praised as the “The Holy Grail” for pricing schemes.
While Google argues for a get-out-of-jail-free card, an ineffective remedy presents an urgent threat to the rule of law.
The public deserves the tangible benefits of successful antitrust enforcement. Read our amicus brief for more👇
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As @LeeHepner has said before, the court’s affirmative duty is clear. It must craft a remedy designed to:
🔨 Unfetter the market from Google’s monopoly
💸 Deprive Google of the fruits of its monopoly
🚫 Prevent the re-emergence of monopoly, including in related AI markets
The search case, won by @JKBustertruster and his team, remains the tip of the spear in renewed enforcement of our core anti-monopoly laws — which is why the court must get remedies right.
Google broke internet search, and the penalty must match the crime. Our ideas on remedies👇
A year ago today, Judge Mehta found Google to be an illegal monopolist and “acted as one to maintain its monopoly” in search — one of the greatest antitrust victories in history.
Now this month, the court is expected to rule on remedies. Here's what they should look like👇🧵
Now it’s not just designers of the world rejoicing, but investors too.
It’s a reminder that robust antitrust enforcement and protecting competition also often leads to financial success for innovative companies.
Full article: www.ft.com/content/a2bf...
In 2023, Silicon Valley panicked when Jonathan Kanter’s Antitrust Division stepped in to block the $20B Adobe-Figma merger, which was then abandoned.
Now, Figma is worth more than ever after going public Thursday with a valuation of nearly $70B.
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ICYMI: Yesterday, Former Director Rohit Chopra was live on r/IAmA, answering question about his role at the CFPB.
With the recent gutting of the CFPB, consumers are concerned over what — if any — protections they now have under the Trump CFPB.
Here's Former Director Chopra on junk fees👇
Posted last night:
📢The US goods & services trade deficit was 47% larger in first 5 months of '25 than 1st 5 months of '24. ie. $165 billion opposite of Trump's trade promises. Even B4 the full 6 month data is out 8/5, we can see the trade deficit up in Trump’s 2nd term. We'll have more tomorrow!
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🚨NEXT WEEK: Join us in New Orleans for our latest Break Up Big Medicine Roundtable on Thursday August 7th.
Alongside advocates, experts, and healthcare professionals, we’ll discuss the harms of — and solutions to — corporate consolidation and vertical integration in the healthcare industry.
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Rethink Trade's Lori Wallach was on DemocracyNow! this morning to talk tariffs/the Trump administration's trade actions.
📌 Watch now: youtu.be/BU5Bm4afPs8?...
"President Donald Trump and DOT Secretary Sean Duffy met their first real test of antitrust and competition enforcement, and unfortunately for air travelers, the DOT failed."
ICYMI: @wjm-air.bsky.social on the DOT's approval of the United Airlines-JetBlue “Blue Sky” Collaboration👇
“We need more officials… to make it crystal clear that fighting for a level playing field is a core value... even when it means standing up to big business..."
Must-read from Lina Khan on why fighting for small businesses must be a core tenant of any durable economic agenda.
ICYMI, Delta announced earlier this month that it would deploy AI pricing tools across 20% of its domestic flights in the coming months. This should be a wakeup call for lawmakers and consumers alike - here’s why: 🧵
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How does the "trade deal" just announced with the European Union measure up to the goals of rebuilding American manufacturing and rebalancing trade that candidate and then Pres. Trump promised was the mission of his tariff and trade policy? Use our evaluator to test it out...🧵
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Read the full piece here:
www.fastcompany.com/91374146/com...
"The ability to compare prices, to rely on consistent prices, and to know why a price is being charged—this is what gives us the power to know if we are getting a fair deal. Surveillance pricing destroys the social contract of the marketplace."
ICYMI: @nhegde.bsky.social in @fastcompany.com 👇
