When Twitter CEO Elon Musk suspended the accounts of journalists who had reported on him critically, it sparked a major public outcry, and the reporters' accounts were quickly restored.
But when it comes to the threat posed to independent journalism by Big Tech, these Twitter bans were just the tip of the iceberg.
In the decades since Common Dreams launched as a progressive nonprofit news organization, we’ve seen a tiny handful of giant corporations take ever more control over what we see and read online. And these
companies have made it harder and harder for new readers to find Common Dreams, by tweaking their algorithms in ways that deprioritize our content in search results, social media, and news feeds.
Fewer readers mean fewer donors—at a time when our progressive nonprofit journalism is needed more than ever, as the climate emergency accelerates, inequality soars, and democracy is under threat around the world.
