Jessica Melugin is director of the Center for Technology & Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Her research focuses on technology issues including antitrust, online privacy, artificial intelligence, telecommunications, social media content and net neutrality regulation. Her writings have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, Bloomberg Law, National Review and others. She has been cited in The Washington Post, Politico, U.S. News and World Report and Variety. Ms. Melugin is a frequent cable news television and radio guest.
She is a 2022 and 2023 Innovators Network Foundation Antitrust and Competition Policy Fellow.
Ms. Melugin graduated magna cum laude from Claremont McKenna College, with a degree in government and art history. Her honors thesis explored the development of American antitrust law as it pertains to the Microsoft trial. She lives in Virginia’s horse country with her children.
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News
AI antitrust investigations go against U.S. innovation: CEI analysis
- Jessica Melugin
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) announced new antitrust investigations into investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) made by Microsoft, OpenAI, and…
Antitrust
DOJ’s suit to breakup Live Nation-Ticketmaster will not lead to lower prices for entertainment
- Jessica Melugin
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit today against Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, alleging anticompetitive behavior. The DOJ lawsuit seeks to…
Antitrust
Spirit Announces Furloughs after Biden, Court Scuttle Merger with JetBlue
- Jessica Melugin
In the wake of an adverse court ruling and a Biden administration threat to stop a merger between budget airlines Spirit Airlines and JetBlue, the…
Antitrust
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Blog
Everyone agrees we need more spectrum, so why is Congress making it complicated?
- By: Jessica Melugin
Politics prioritized over policy is de rigueur these days, but it shouldn’t be for spectrum auction reauthorization. The importance to the US economy and to…
Tech and Telecom
How a carefully planned strategy can persuade a skeptical judiciary
- By: Jessica Melugin
Former FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Howard Beales and former FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris co-authored a new CEI paper contrasting the radical…
Eye on FTC
US move to ban TikTok a troubling signal for our great experiment in self-determination
- By: Jessica Melugin
As a part of a foreign aid funding package, the Senate passed a bill mandating TikTok’s divestiture from Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance. Biden…
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National Review
Baseless Federal Investigations Would Stifle America’s Pioneering AI Industry
- By: Jessica Melugin
TheBiden administration is going beyond antitrust enforcement in AI and is instead trying to predict the future of the industry itself.Reportsindicate…
Antitrust
Wall Street Journal
For the Sake of Free Speech, Keep Section 230
- By: Jessica Melugin
The only remedy Reps. McMorris Rodgers and Pallone Jr. offer for online harms is to turn the plaintiffs’ bar loose on tech companies, a curious…
Tech and Telecom
Wall Street Journal
For the Sake of Free Speech, Keep Section 230
- By: Jessica Melugin
The only remedy Reps. McMorris Rodgers and Pallone Jr. offer for online harms is to turn the plaintiffs’ bar loose on tech companies, a curious…
Tech and Telecom
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Studies
- By: Jessica Melugin
Fretting about “killer acquisitions” and “kill zones” is common among regulators in Washington these days, but entrepreneurs and investors at work in the tech industry…
Antitrust
Don’t Confuse the Platform with the Train
- By: Dan Greenberg, Jessica Melugin
Executive Summary Should social media companies be regulated like common carriers? To answer that question, this paper describes the functions and origins of social media…
Antitrust
Preserving Section 230 Is Key to Maintaining the Free and Open Internet
- By: Jessica Melugin
Passed as part of the Telecommunications Decency Act of 1996, Section 230 was intended to clarify liability rules online and to encourage sites to create…
Tech and Telecom
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Reason
Parents Don’t Want Schools to Confiscate Kids’ Phones
- By: Jessica Melugin
CEI’s Jessica Melugin is cited in Reason on parents position of schools confiscating student’s phones: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantissigned a law restricting teen use…
Tech and Telecom
Fox Business
Apple Vision Pro headset becomes tool in operating room
- By: Jessica Melugin
CEI’s Jessica Melugin is cited in Fox Business on Apple Vision Pro becoming an operating room tool: Jessica Melugin, director of the Competitive Enterprise…
Tech and Telecom
Fox Business
Nobody is going to use Google’s woke chatbot unless they ‘fix’ its bias: Jessica Melugin
- By: Jessica Melugin
CEI’s Jessica Melugin is featured in a Fox News interview about Google’s woke chatbot: Watch the latest video at foxbusiness.com Watch the interview on…
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Regulatory Comments
FCC: Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 88 Fed. Reg. 76048
- By: Jessica Melugin
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”) respectfully submits these comments in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) adopted on October 19, 2023, in the…
Innovation
CEI Comments on Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet
- By: Brian A. Rankin, Jessica Melugin
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”) respectfully submits these comments in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) adopted on October 19, 2023, in the…
Innovation
Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute
- By: Alex Reinauer, Jessica Melugin, Ryan Young
September 26, 2023 RE: Premerger Notification; Reporting and Waiting Period Requirements Docket ID No.: FTC-2023-0040-0001 On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we respectfully…
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