37 States and territories (including Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico) have passed legislation allowing corporations to be registered as benefit corporations. Benefit corporations serve a dual goal of profit for their shareholders and benefit for the environment or society at large. Benefit corporations were born out of the need to reconcile the inability of for-profit corporations to prioritize other stakeholders or the environment, over or equally with profit maximization go

For years, academics, policymakers and activists alike have been calling for harsher regulation on “Big Tech” such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. The issue famously even launched the current chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission into her current role. These groups have long argued that the current antitrust framework, which utilizes consumer welfare as impacted by price fluctuations in the market as the gage anticompetitive harm, is ineffective against the unencumbered