Meta has intentionally changed Facebook’s algorithm to suppress Common Dreams and other digital news outlets.

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Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has just publicly admitted something that we’d long suspected: They’ve intentionally changed their algorithm to suppress Common Dreams and other digital news outlets in the Facebook news feed.

Of course, far-right conservatives on Facebook like Donald Trump, Dan Bongino, and Ben Shapiro continue to get massive traffic. And corporate-funded super PACs can pump unlimited amounts of money into news sites to flood them with their lies and disinformation.

But in the words of one commentator, independent news outlets like Common Dreams have been “nuked.”

If you’re getting this email, you probably don’t need Facebook to help you find Common Dreams. However, one in three Americans rely on Facebook for news, more than any other social media platform, and more than all the cable news channels combined.

We can’t stress enough how damaging this could be to our ability to find new readers, especially young people. And because reader donations entirely fund us—we don’t take a dime in corporate advertising and will never hide our journalism behind a paywall—this seriously threatens our ability to fund our most basic operations.

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