Feature / December 11, 2023

The Algorithm Oligarchy

How the Internet produced the age of monopoly platforms.

Colleen Tighe

Become a Sustaining Donor This September

Between the reemergence of right-wing red-baiting and Donald Trump’s use of the chilling National Security Presidential Memorandum–7 to criminalize left political organizing, we’re seeing McCarthyism reborn before our eyes.

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Onward,

Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Colleen Tighe

Colleen Tighe is an illustrator, writer and animator. She likes learning about the structures making up our world, and her cat.

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