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Sally Hubbard

  • Director of Enforcement Strategy, Openmarkets
New York, Washington, D.C.
As seen in: CNN, The New York Times, Forbes, USA Today, Slate, Yahoo, Tampa Bay Times, Des Moines Register, KTVQ-TV (Billings, MT), KPAX-TV (Missoula, MT) and
Author MONOPOLIES SUCK | Senior Fellow @openmarkets & @econliberties | Former Senior Counsel to the AAG, DOJ Antitrust Division | Former NY AAG
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Making Medicine in America Again: Why Breaking Monopolies Is Key to Building a Resilient U.S. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Base

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By Sally Hubbard, Lori Wallach, Emma Freer
| American Economic Liberties Project
Over several decades, federal policymakers have enabled and incentivized profit-maximizing corporations to offshore the production of pharmaceuticals, systematically dismantling domestic manufacturing capacity. Through the 1960s, pharmaceutical products consumed in the United States largely were manufactured within the country’s borders.
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Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control

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By Sally Hubbard
| citylights.com
Price: $17.00 In stock Overview An urgent and witty manifesto, Monopolies Suck “lucidly explains how monopolies threaten democracy, worsen inequality, and imperil the American Dream–and why it’s more important than ever to take action” (David Cicilline). Something’s not right. No matter how hard you work, life seems to only get harder.
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Monopolies Suck

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By Sally Hubbard
| Simon and Schuster
"A provocative call to restore economic competition by dismantling the ruling plutocracy." —Kirkus Reviews "Hubbard’s cogent, accessible analysis makes a persuasive case that unchecked monopolies have rigged the system against ordinary Americans.
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April 20 - After Google and Facebook: The Future of Journalism and Democracy — Open Markets Institute

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By Penny Abernathy, Rana Foroohar , Sally Hubbard, Sara Fischer 
| Open Markets Institute
A free event produced by The Open Markets Institute’s Center for Journalism & Liberty in cooperation with The Washington Monthly. See additional details below. RSVP below or return here to watch live Full Name * First Name Last Name Email * Organization Title Thank you for registering our event. Check back here on April 20th to watch the livestream. Click the link below to add to your calendar.
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Monopolies Have Made America's C-19 Crisis Much Worse

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By Sally Hubbard
| RealClear Markets
ovid-19 continues to spread, millions of Americans are losing their jobs, thousands of restaurants have closed for good and one in three small businesses surveyed by the nonprofit Small Business Majority said they won't survive beyond the next three months without additional funding. Yet the nation's most dominant corporations seem to be weathering the pandemic just fine. As C Read Full Article »
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Opinion: Monopolies have made America's Covid response worse

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By Sally Hubbard
| CNN
Sally Hubbard is director of strategic enforcement at the Open Markets Institute, a former antitrust enforcer and author of Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own.
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Opinion: Forget bias, the real danger is Big Tech's overwhelming control over speech

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By Sally Hubbard
| CNN
Sally Hubbard is director of strategic enforcement at the Open Markets Institute, a former antitrust enforcer and author of Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own.
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The US v. Google Case Bears More Than a Little Resemblance to the Microsoft Antitrust Case

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By Sally Hubbard
| promarket.org
In many ways, the DOJ’s complaint is a near clone of the Microsoft case, making it a strong, low-risk first step in curbing Google’s monopolization. Yet the case only addresses a fraction of Google’s anticompetitive behavior. Congress should not wait for years for US v. Google to wind through the courts before passing structural reform. Amidst a global pandemic and a presidential election that have America on edge, October 2020 will not be remembered as the best of times.
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What the US Economy Could Look Like if Digital Markets Were Open and Competitive

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By Sally Hubbard
| promarket.org
The US House of Representatives’ investigation into digital platforms has opened Americans’ eyes to the widespread harms that flow from the illegal monopolization of these markets. Yet we have been under monopoly rule for so long that we’re suffering from a crisis of imagination. So let’s take a moment to envision the possibilities of what America could be. Editor’s note: The following is based on oral testimony given before the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee on October 1, 2020.
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ANNOUNCING: Sally Hubbard’s New Book - Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control — Open Markets Institute

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By Sally Hubbard
| Open Markets Institute
In Monopolies Suck, Sally Hubbard, the director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, shows us the seven ways big corporations rule our lives—and what must be done to stop them. Monopolies make your life harder every day, but you may not realize it.
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Allowing Digital Platforms to Continue Picking the Winners and Losers of Our Economy Is Un-American

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By Sally Hubbard
| promarket.org
Antitrust law aims to stop established companies from shutting out competitors. We should revive enforcement against exclusionary conduct, as well as structurally eliminate the platforms’ conflicts of interest and remove their incentive and ability to self-preference. The act of self-preferencing, by which digital platforms give preferential treatment to their own services over the services of other companies, is fundamentally about the American Dream.
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Monopolies Suck

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By Sally Hubbard
| Simon and Schuster
An urgent and witty manifesto, Monopolies Suck shows how monopoly power is harming everyday Americans and practical ways we can all fight back. Something’s not right. No matter how hard you work, life seems to only get harder. When your expenses keep going up but your income stays flat, when you’re price-gouged buying medicine for your child’s life-threatening allergy, when you live in a hyped-up state of fear and anxiety, monopoly power is playing a key role.
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My Luckiest Career Break Was When My Husband Took the Lead at Home

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By Sally Hubbard
| Slate
Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photo by Thinkstock. In January, I got a lucky career break. It wasn’t a promotion or a job offer. My husband left his law firm job to start his own firm from home. I knew the change would be good for him, but I had no idea how good it would be for me. I got my first clue when I came home from a typical race-against-time workday to find our children’s clothes washed and folded, stacked neatly into piles. The vision filled me with pure unadulterated joy.
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‎Women Killing It! on Apple Podcasts

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By Sally Hubbard
| Apple Podcasts
99 episodes Host Sally Hubbard talks to women who are killing it in their careers about what has worked for them, how they got where they are today, and what they wish they knew sooner. Women Killing It! celebrates these rockstars and harnesses their collective wisdom. The result is mentorship by podcast - women helping women unleash their superpowers at work! Women Killing It! is a proud partner of Women You Should Know, a leading digital hub of women's and girls' empowerment.
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Perspectives: Facebook needs more than a $5 billion fine. It needs a new business model

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By Sally Hubbard
| CNN
Sally Hubbard is director of strategic enforcement at the Open Markets Institute and a former assistant attorney general in the New York AG Antitrust Bureau. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is letting Facebook off the hook. On Wednesday, the FTC announced a $5 billion fine on Facebook over rampant privacy abuses that violated a 2011 order — the largest in the agency's history.
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Monopolies are killing the American Dream. We must keep them in check

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By Sally Hubbard
| CNN
Sally Hubbard is director of strategic enforcement at the Open Markets Institute and a former assistant attorney general in the New York AG Antitrust Bureau. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. Monopolies are an important issue in the 2020 presidential campaign and even took the center stage at the first of last week's Democratic debates, with Elizabeth Warren pronouncing early on that she wanted to return government to the people.
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Antitrust & The Decline of American Journalism | RealClearMarkets

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By Sally Hubbard
| RealClear Markets
Antitrust & The Decline of American Journalism Weak antitrust enforcement set the stage for Facebook and Google to extract the fruits of publishers' labor. We won't be able to save journalism and solve our disinformation problem unless we weaken monopolies' power. Read Full Article »
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The Decline of American Journalism Is an Antitrust Problem

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By Sally Hubbard
| promarket.org
Weak antitrust enforcement set the stage for Facebook and Google to extract the fruits of publishers’ labor. We won’t be able to save journalism and solve our disinformation problem unless we weaken monopolies’ power. As a former antitrust enforcer, I believe that the starving of journalism and the disinformation crisis are in good part monopoly problems.
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Perspectives: We're getting closer to stopping tech giants like Apple from abusing their power

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By Sally Hubbard
| CNN
By Sally Hubbard for CNN Business Perspectives Updated 5:57 PM ET, Wed May 15, 2019 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Sally Hubbard is director of strategic enforcement at the Open Markets Institute and a former assistant attorney general in the New York AG Antitrust Bureau. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own.
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Noncompete clauses trap #MeToo victims in abusive workplaces. The FTC should ban them.

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By Sally Hubbard, Sandeep Vaheesan
| Des Moines Register
Sally Hubbard and Sandeep Vaheesan, Opinion contributors Published 1:51 p.m. CT May 14, 2019 Sexual harassment is much more prevalent in American society — for women and men — than once thought. It also affects children as well, studies show. Dwight Adams, dwight.adams@indystar.com One way for women to escape sexual assault or harassment is to get new jobs, even if they pay less. But noncompete clauses rob them of this leverage.
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Noncompete clauses trap #MeToo victims in abusive workplaces. The FTC should ban them.

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By Sally Hubbard, Sandeep Vaheesan
| Aberdeen News
After decades of virtual silence, the #MeToo movement has publicized the epidemic of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. The recent New York Times investigation of Sterling Jewelers exposes the depth of the problem and shows how long and hard women’s fight for justice remains. Since women who complain about harassment face retaliation and even termination, often the only way to escape it is to find a new job.
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Noncompete clauses trap #MeToo victims in abusive workplaces. The FTC should ban them.

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By Sally Hubbard, Sandeep Vaheesan
| Daily American
After decades of virtual silence, the #MeToo movement has publicized the epidemic of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. The recent New York Times investigation of Sterling Jewelers exposes the depth of the problem and shows how long and hard women’s fight for justice remains. Since women who complain about harassment face retaliation and even termination, often the only way to escape it is to find a new job.
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Noncompete clauses trap #MeToo victims in abusive workplaces. The FTC should ban them.

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By Sally Hubbard, Sandeep Vaheesan
| Yahoo News
One way for women to escape sexual assault or harassment is to get new jobs, even if they pay less. But noncompete clauses rob them of this leverage. After decades of virtual silence, the #MeToo movement has publicized the epidemic of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. The recent New York Times investigation of Sterling Jewelers exposes the depth of the problem and shows how long and hard women’s fight for justice remains.
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Noncompete clauses trap #MeToo victims in abusive workplaces. The FTC should ban them.

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By Sally Hubbard, Sandeep Vaheesan
| USA Today
After decades of virtual silence, the #MeToo movement has publicized the epidemic of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. The recent New York Times investigation of Sterling Jewelers exposes the depth of the problem and shows how long and hard women’s fight for justice remains. Since women who complain about harassment face retaliation and even termination, often the only way to escape it is to find a new job.
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Perspectives: Facebook's new plan doesn't protect your privacy, and neither does the FTC

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By Sally Hubbard
| CNN
Sally Hubbard is director of strategic enforcement at the Open Markets Institute. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. Facebook didn't get where it is today by protecting your privacy. The company made $56 billion in 2018, in part by tracking people both on and off its platform and then selling targeted advertisements based on that surveillance.
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Opinion | How to Stop Facebook’s Dangerous App Integration Ploy (Published 2019)

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By Sally Hubbard
| The New York Times
Opinion|How to Stop Facebook’s Dangerous App Integration Ploy https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/opinion/facebook-integration.html Its plan to combine Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger entrenches its monopoly power, and the F.T.C. should step in. Feb. 5, 2019 Credit...Chesnot/Getty Images By Sally Hubbard Ms. Hubbard is an editor at The Capitol Forum.
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The case for why Big Tech is violating antitrust laws

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By Sally Hubbard
| KPAX-TV (Missoula, MT)
Big Tech is behaving badly. And I’m not talking about Facebook handing over your personal data to the highest bidder or Amazon playing puppeteer in its HQ2 charade. Big Tech is violating the Sherman Act of 1890. If you think an antitrust law passed over a century ago couldn’t possibly address the problems of the digital era, you’re wrong. Much like our Constitution, the Sherman Act was written broadly enough to handle whatever the future might hold.
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The case for why Big Tech is violating antitrust laws

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By Sally Hubbard
| KRTV-TV (Great Falls, MT)
Big Tech is behaving badly. And I’m not talking about Facebook handing over your personal data to the highest bidder or Amazon playing puppeteer in its HQ2 charade. Big Tech is violating the Sherman Act of 1890. If you think an antitrust law passed over a century ago couldn’t possibly address the problems of the digital era, you’re wrong. Much like our Constitution, the Sherman Act was written broadly enough to handle whatever the future might hold.
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The case for why Big Tech is violating antitrust laws

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By Sally Hubbard
| KBZK-TV (Bozeman, MT)
Big Tech is behaving badly. And I’m not talking about Facebook handing over your personal data to the highest bidder or Amazon playing puppeteer in its HQ2 charade. Big Tech is violating the Sherman Act of 1890. If you think an antitrust law passed over a century ago couldn’t possibly address the problems of the digital era, you’re wrong. Much like our Constitution, the Sherman Act was written broadly enough to handle whatever the future might hold.
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The case for why Big Tech is violating antitrust laws

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By Sally Hubbard
| KXLF-TV (Butte, MT)
Big Tech is behaving badly. And I’m not talking about Facebook handing over your personal data to the highest bidder or Amazon playing puppeteer in its HQ2 charade. Big Tech is violating the Sherman Act of 1890. If you think an antitrust law passed over a century ago couldn’t possibly address the problems of the digital era, you’re wrong. Much like our Constitution, the Sherman Act was written broadly enough to handle whatever the future might hold.
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The case for why Big Tech is violating antitrust laws

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By Sally Hubbard
| KTVQ-TV (Billings, MT)
Big Tech is behaving badly. And I’m not talking about Facebook handing over your personal data to the highest bidder or Amazon playing puppeteer in its HQ2 charade. Big Tech is violating the Sherman Act of 1890. If you think an antitrust law passed over a century ago couldn’t possibly address the problems of the digital era, you’re wrong. Much like our Constitution, the Sherman Act was written broadly enough to handle whatever the future might hold.
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Perspectives: The case for why Big Tech is violating antitrust laws

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By Sally Hubbard
| CNN
By Sally Hubbard for CNN Business Perspectives Updated 10:34 AM ET, Wed January 2, 2019 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Sally Hubbard is a former assistant attorney general in the New York AG Antitrust Bureau who heads up big tech and monopolization for The Capitol Forum. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. Big Tech is behaving badly.
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The case for why Big Tech is violating antitrust laws

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By Sally Hubbard
| KXLH-TV (Helena, MT)
Big Tech is behaving badly. And I’m not talking about Facebook handing over your personal data to the highest bidder or Amazon playing puppeteer in its HQ2 charade. Big Tech is violating the Sherman Act of 1890. If you think an antitrust law passed over a century ago couldn’t possibly address the problems of the digital era, you’re wrong. Much like our Constitution, the Sherman Act was written broadly enough to handle whatever the future might hold.
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Directors and Boards / What Directors Need to Know About Digital Advertising Fraud

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By Betsy Atkins, Sally Hubbard
| betsyatkins.com
Are ads on Facebook, Google, and other platforms, worth it? By Betsy Atkins and Sally Hubbard Earlier this year, Procter & Gamble announced it cut its digital advertising budget by $200 million after putting pressure on social media companies to be more transparent when it came to the reach of the ads they were selling.
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What Directors Need to Know About Digital Advertising Fraud

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By Betsy Atkins, Sally Hubbard
| Forbes
woman hand holding a sale text phone, empty notebook and white earphone, pink felt pen, succulent pot plantGetty Are ads on Facebook, Google, and other platforms worth it? Earlier this year, Procter & Gamble announced it cut its digital advertising budget by $200 million after putting pressure on social media companies to be more transparent when it came to the reach of the ads they were selling.
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What Directors Need to Know About Digital Advertising Fraud

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By Betsy Atkins, Sally Hubbard
| Directors & Boards
Are ads on Facebook, Google, and other platforms, worth it? By Betsy Atkins and Sally Hubbard Earlier this year, Procter & Gamble announced it cut its digital advertising budget by $200 million after putting pressure on social media companies to be more transparent when it came to the reach of the ads they were selling.
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How Monopolies Make Gender Inequality Worse And Concentrated Economic Power Harms Women

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By Washington Bytes, Sally Hubbard
| Forbes
A growing literature connects increased market concentration with the stark economic and political inequality citizens face today. Speaking at the recent Open Markets Institute conference America’s Monopoly Moment: Work, Innovation, and Control in an Age of Concentrated Power, Senator Elizabeth Warren said that studies show “consolidation even contributes to driving down wages and driving up income inequality.” What, then, does market consolidation mean for gender inequality?
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Fake News Is A Real Antitrust Problem

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By Sally Hubbard
| Competition Policy International
By Sally Hubbard – This essay will explore two primary reasons why fake news is an antitrust problem. First, Facebook and Google compete against legitimate news publishers for user attention, data and advertising dollars. The tech platforms’ business incentives run counter to the interests of legitimate news publishers, and the platforms pull technological levers that harm publishers’ business models and advantage their own.
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Column: My luckiest career break was when my husband took the lead at home

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By Martin Fennelly, Craig Pittman , Jack Paciotti, Sally Hubbard
| Tampa Bay Times
In January, I got a lucky career break. It wasn't a promotion or a job offer. My husband left his law firm job to start his own firm from home. I knew the change would be good for him, but I had no idea how good it would be for me. I got my first clue when I came home from a typical race-against-time workday to find our children's clothes washed and folded, stacked neatly into piles. The vision filled me with pure unadulterated joy. I felt ridiculously happy, giddy with relief. Was I overreacting?
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My luckiest career break was when my husband took the lead at home.

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By Sally Hubbard
| Slate
In January, I got a lucky career break. It wasn’t a promotion or a job offer. My husband left his law firm job to start his own firm from home. I knew the change would be good for him, but I had no idea how good it would be for me. Was I overreacting? My husband thought so. But I'd been washing that kid laundry for ten years, struggling every week to find time. He had even folded the underwear! Why my husband would take the extra second to do that senseless task was beyond me.
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Amazon And Google May Face Antitrust Scrutiny Under Trump

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By Washington Bytes, Sally Hubbard
| Forbes
Powerful tech platforms have platform privilege -- the incentive and ability to prioritize their own products and services over those of competitors. In my last Washington Bytes post, I wrote about Facebook competing against news publishers that depend on its platform to reach customers. In the same way, Amazon competes against merchants and Google competes against websites that depend on them.
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Why Fake News Is An Antitrust Problem

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By Washington Bytes, Sally Hubbard
| Forbes
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has steadily increased user time spent on Facebook's platform (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) Facebook continues to face criticism for its failure to stop the proliferation of fake news. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has responded that Facebook must ensure that any fixes to address the problem do not introduce bias into the system. But is Facebook already biased? When viewed through an antitrust lens, news publishers are Facebook’s competitors.
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5 Ways to Kill It at Work

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By Sally Hubbard
| ellevatenetwork.com
We know what works for men in the workplace, but what works for men does not necessarily work for women. Hearing stories of women who have achieved their career goals is one of the best ways to build a playbook of what does work for women in today’s working world, a primary goal of the Women Killing It! Podcast.
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