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

Found at
: 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

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

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