Corporate America silenced researchers before. Now they're doing it again | Marshall Steinbaum

A storm has erupted around the dismissal of Barry Lynn, a Silicon Valley critic, from his Google-funded thinktank. We have every reason to be concernedMarshall Steinbaum is a fellow and research director at the Roosevelt Institute, where he researches market power and inequalityBarry Lynn is an outspoken critic of the concentration of power in Silicon Valley. And as of this week, he is more than that. He’s a dissident, rousted out and crushed by the might of Big Tech’s accumulated ec