Slaughter, according to an email obtained by the Times, told Lynn that he and his team had to leave New America. She also said that Schmidt did not threaten to cut off funding for the think tank because of the Open Markets statement on Google’s antitrust fine. Lynn is now building an independent think tank to continue his anti-monopoly work with his New America team. The group has already launched a campaign aimed at mobilizing public opposition to the power of modern-day monopolies by highlighting Google’s power to quash independent research like that by the Open Markets team. “This kind of proves the point.” It’s not as though the Open Markets team needed to get fired to buttress their concerns about monopoly power.

Source: Huffington Post August 31, 2017 00:46 UTC