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Last summer, just at the moment when the 2020 presidential election was
really heating up, something bizarre happened.

The number of visitors to Common Dreams from Facebook and Google fell
off a cliff.

We don't know why or what happened, but the data tells a clear story.
Something in their algorithm changed so that stories from Common Dreams
were being pushed down or hidden entirely from people's news feeds and
search results.

Because such a large percentage of web referrals to news sites like ours
come from Facebook, it was a huge blow to our readership and small donor
base. More than a year later, it still hasn't recovered.

Now, thanks to Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, we've learned that
at the very moment that traffic to Common Dreams was dropping like a
stone, Facebook was actively promoting the far-right website Breitbart
News, over the strong internal objections of Facebook's own employees.

Big Tech only cares about one thing: making money. And if conspiracy
theories perform better than real news, then that's what they'll push.
To survive in a world where so much web traffic is controlled by a
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