Big Tech Fight Back

Don’t Switch Off, Fight Back.

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We Can’t Lie to You. The Broligarchs are Crushing Us

Though Byline Times is going from strength to strength in print and retail (we’ve just been nominated for Newstand Magazine of the year), we – like many other news organisations – are getting slowly crushed online  

Five years ago, our bylinetimes.com news site received 5 million referrals from Facebook and Twitter. 

Last year, after it was turned into a vortex of hate speech and disinformation, our referrals from X were down to 1 million.

Facebook is even worse. External links and news are so downgraded that they have collapsed to 100,000. 

There’s our challenge. Not only have Musk and Zuckerberg endorsed Trump and spread inflammatory information about politics all the way to last summer’s riots, but they are also deliberately trying to stop us from exposing this on their platforms.

The big drop off of traffic directly affects our subscription base and impact. 

We’re not giving up, even though this has dented our revenues and ability to conduct more investigations. We’re already developing a strong replacement audience on Subtack, podcasts and Apple News. But we do need your help. We’re starting a #BigTechFightBack 

If you can support our crowdfunder, we can invest in new ways to reach our audience and hire staff dedicated to making sure our stories cut through to the public. 

Even better, if you’re not already a subscriber, you can immediately access the exclusive content from our print edition today by signing up for our new online print edition site.

We’ll get through this. The truth will always out, and monopolies collapse under the weight of their own arrogance. But these are tough times. We’re sailing into strong headwinds. And we could do with a boost. 

If ‘X’ will no longer provide a public forum, we’ll make our own.

And if Facebook won’t let us reach new audiences, we’ll do it ourselves.

Join our Big Tech Fight Back today and support our crowdfunder.

Peter Jukes

#BIGTECHFIGHTBACK

http://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/six

A huge thank you to our news site sponsors so far.

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