How the left can win back the internet – and rise again

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planted: 13/04/2026last tended: 13/04/2026
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2026/feb/01/digital-politics-progressives-internet-the-left-online-world

Good but doesn't quite live up to the title. In that there's not much in the way of a programme of actually how to win back the internet. Just suggestions that the left needs to be less splintered, and needs to build a new media ecosystem.

platforms that had once offered a space for debate and deliberation shifted toward emotion and immersion

instead of building an alternative new media ecosystem and amplifying each other’s work, the left focuses more on competition than the right.

the real power of online politics is about waging the fight over how people view the world – and what they see as politically possible.

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