Sumit Sharma

Days before Brazil's election, Meta briefly blocked President Lula's campaign page from running political ads and removed an Instagram profile behind a viral video on Flávio Bolsonaro. Both decisions were reversed, but raised public concerns. Brazilian investigative journalist Laís Martins reports.

Why the recent Meta settlement with State AGs is a win for Meta @techpolicypress.bsky.social Product design changes do not restrict Meta’s ability to target or monetize teens, nor are damages substantial. Meta might even gain competitively from the settlement www.techpolicy.press/two-reasons-...

Google’s ad tech dominance needed structural relief. Instead, the court chose behavioral remedies that may leave Google’s conflicts intact. @sumitecon.bsky.social: publishers, advertisers, competitors, and consumers need real competition. Read his full statement: nextgencomp.tech/statements/n...

The latest Top Hat & Thimble is here. 📰 This month: @sumitecon.bsky.social on app store distribution monopolies, Candeub Candon't, the rise of Little Tech, and more! Read it here: newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...

Senate Judiciary held a hearing for the new antitrust division nominee, Adam Candeub, today. It didn't go that well. Candeub dodged questions from R and D senators on the First Amendment, saying his job as the general counsel of the FCC precluded him from answering.

The latest Top Hat & Thimble is here. 📰 This month: @sumitecon.bsky.social on Big Tech and AI, Alex Bores’ anti-Big Tech run in New York, the Supreme Court’s blow to independent agencies, and more. Read it here: newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...

My take on the AI bubble and how antitrust enforcement can help. My favorite example of the bubble is ‘All Birds’ a maker of wool sneakers that promised to become a GPU-as-a-Service provider and its stock surged 350% in a week! @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/antitrust-en...

Google wants to overturn search remedies. The DOJ and 38 states want them strengthened. As Executive Director @sumitecon.bsky.social notes, no rival can outbid Google for default placement. Without stronger remedies, Google’s monopoly machine keeps running. ⚖️ www.techtimes.com/articles/318...

"The question we should be asking here is: what do Musk and Vance and others hope to achieve by such obviously incendiary rhetoric? Perhaps the issues of shrinking resources — in housing, healthcare, policing and education — and the interests of the world’s richest man are connected after all."

ICYMI: A state senate candidate taking on Big Tech’s data center rush? 👀 In NextGen’s latest Q&A, @sumitecon.bsky.social discusses data centers, monopoly power, and affordability with West Virginia’s Elizabeth Ferris. Read it here: nextgencomp.tech/blog/qanda-w...

Our latest edition of Top Hat and Thimble is out now! 📰 Get @sumitecon.bsky.social's take on the vital role State AGs play, coalition advocacy efforts, Meta on trial, and more! Read it here: newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...

My latest on Google search remedies

My new report on implementing search remedies in US v Google - despite some important limitations, the remedies ordered could be useful if implemented judiciously. When life gives you lemons... insights.sumitsharma.consulting/p/google-sea...

Sam Altman himself admitted the whole thing was “rushed” and that “the optics don’t look good,” which is one way to describe handing the Pentagon sweeping AI capabilities while your competitor gets blacklisted for insisting on civil liberties protections.

LIVE NOW: @scottwiener.bsky.social is introducing SB(ASED) 1074 to crack down on Big Tech’s monopoly abuses and make it easier to leave the evil platforms propping up the Trump regime and build alternatives like Bluesky and Mastodon. @fightforthefuture.org supports www.youtube.com/live/Yr9mHKx...

Palantir reported $1.5 billion of U.S. income but paid exactly zero federal income tax in 2025. Despite explosive growth, tax breaks from the Trump tax law helped Palantir avoid paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings. Read more at: itep.org/palantir-pay...

People assume that gov’t inaction is the best policy strategy to support Little Tech. We pulled together conservative, progressives, LT companies, investors and found 7 discrete fed. & state policies to support Little Tech that could garner bipartisan and industry support.

All the cozying up to the Trump Administration coming back to bite Google ! ‘America First’ is increasingly ‘America Alone’ which means naturally but slowly (very slowly ) foreign markets shut out foreign digital infrastructure. How’s that for your bottom line Goolge?

Anti-monopoly is the answer to this moment. We can take on corporate power and create markets that actually work for people. I'm running for Congress b/c monopolies make our lives more expensive. The only way through the crisis is to unmake their power.

Alongside @consumerfed.bsky.social, @epic.org, and @demandprogress.bsky.social, we're proud to join an amicus brief in support of Commissioner Slaughter. The FTC serves the public, not corporate profit, and giving the President unbridled power to fire economic regulators puts Americans at risk.

My latest Op-Ed in @commondreams.org House Republicans keep promising a crusade against Big Tech’s power. If they were serious, they would likely find support from their Democratic colleagues

Jim Jordan has been traveling the world on our dime to lobby for Big Tech in the name of protecting “free speech.” This shift from antitrust to anti-woke is a gift to Big Tech.