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Friend,
The social media giant known as Twitter came clean last week with an admission of a fact that many of us have known for a while.
In a self-congratulatory disclosure, the Silicon Valley titan confirmed that its content algorithm has been disproportionately promoting right-wing content over left-leaning content on its platform for some time.
This disclosure arrives in direct contradiction to the loud and relentless lies by assorted Republicans, far-right voices, and MAGA-loving pundits that it was “liberals” and “progressives” getting all the preferential treatment.
In other news, leaked “Facebook Papers” reveal a platform that repeatedly “puts profit over people,” and the internal docs show its algorithms are actively promoting hateful content and misinformation over high-quality news and critical insights.
Common Dreams has known for some time that corporate interests and their right-wing influencers have always had a leg up in the for-profit world of social media.
We’ve had a front-row seat to how corporate platforms have steadily encroached on the ideals of a free and open internet, bending the democratic promise of the web into a funnel of personal wealth for the billionaires who increasingly control it.
But while this throttling of content hurts our ability to reach new audiences and share our journalism, we refuse to let it stand in the way of our mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good.
Our promise is to keep holding power to account, and all we need to keep going is support from readers like you, to ensure that no corporation, no algorithm, and no amount of right-wing misinformation will keep us from providing the coverage you have grown to expect from us.
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