A new movement wants to protect social media from billionaires

An initiative called Free Our Feeds, backed by the founder of Wikipedia, is raising money to protect the technology that powers Bluesky.

Over the past few years, concerns about billionaires using media outlets they own to signal boost their own beliefs has become a growing concern. Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. Elon Musk owns X (formerly Twitter) – and might be in the running to buy TikTok, if a Bloomberg report is to be believed.