Matt Stoller is an American 🏷️#author and antimonopoly researcher, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project and writer of BIG, a widely read newsletter on monopoly power and politics. His 2019 book Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy traces how the United States built — and then abandoned — its antimonopoly tradition. Earlier he worked in Congress as a policy advisor to the Senate Budget Committee and on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act in the House.
Stoller's core frame treats Google and Facebook as 21st-century communication networks rather than publishers: they hold monopoly power over how we communicate online, and — unusually for communication networks, which historically were not allowed to finance themselves with advertising — their ad-funded business model embeds a conflict of interest that lets third parties pay to distort the information flow between people. He lays out that two-part diagnosis — dominant gatekeeping power plus corrupting business model — on "📝Extraordinary Levels," the fourth episode of 📝Everything They Know.
Matt entered the library through his Everything They Know interview on my friend 📝Ari Andersen's podcast.