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Friend,
Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web, once described the internet as a “permissionless space for creativity, innovation and free expression.”
It was in this fertile soil of the free and open internet that Common Dreams was founded and grew to become the incredible people-powered, reader-funded news outlet that informs and inspires millions.
But the free and open internet that allowed Common Dreams to thrive is disappearing.
Tech giants like Google and Facebook have become the new gatekeepers, controlling which voices are heard and who gets pushed off to the side. These tech giants control a huge percentage of traffic on the internet with algorithms designed with just one priority in mind: making money for themselves.
On an internet controlled by big corporations, nonprofit outlets like Common Dreams don't have a chance, and every year it gets harder to attract the readers and donations we need to pay our newsroom staff and keep our servers running. And I’ll be honest. Based on current trends, we may not be around much longer.
Friend, as a Common Dreams reader, you know how valuable our journalism is. We do the reporting that the corporate media won’t on issues like the climate emergency, corporate power, racism, and the military-industrial complex.
Please make a donation and help us meet our must-hit Fall Campaign goal. Without your support, we simply won’t be able to go on.
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