Today the world’s richest man, mega-billionaire Elon Musk, was allowed to buy one of the most potent communication platforms on Earth used by hundreds of millions of people each day.
As the writer Anand Giridharadas argued, Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter "isn't just some corporate takeover."
"This is about a set of very specific moves that our oligarchs have been taking that have gradually concentrated economic, political, and discursive power in fewer and fewer hands."
And let’s be clear: an increasingly consolidated Internet is a direct threat to small, independent outlets like Common Dreams. This control squeezes our ability to survive in a media system focused on profits, mining the personal data of users, and increasingly controlled by oligarchs and corporate gatekeepers.
If independent journalism is to survive and we are to win a better world, it’s not enough to simply shake our fists at the corporate behemoths and billionaire overlords like Musk.
