What’s Citizens Reunited?
Big Tech and its oligarchs have captured our information space, economy and politics - attacking democracy, spreading hate and centralizing power. We’re up against a tech coup: an unholy alliance of tech and state that is dismantling oversight, redefining “free speech” to advance its agenda and ushering techno-authoritarianism.
Stopping the tech coup starts here. Citizens Reunited is an online community of everyday activists and experts challenging the power of Big Tech - a place to learn, connect and act.
For years, the Citizens has delivered critical investigations and campaigns against Big Tech, and brought the world's leading experts together to share solutions. But to power an anti-Big Tech movement with teeth, we’re going further - launching a broadcast channel and online community, Citizens Reunited, as a hub for news and action.
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Why subscribe?
By subscribing free to Citizens Reunited, you will receive our weekly action digest, with the most critical readings, links and actions you can take. And you’ll get an invitation to our Signal community, where we have lively conversations about the future of the internet and alternatives to Big Tech platforms.
By becoming a paid subscriber, you will have full access to expert conversations, explainers, quarterly convenings and more. Leveraging our board of Big Tech experts, Citizens Reunited will bring you analysis from some of the great global minds on the subject.
We will gather leaders from tech accountability, democracy and human rights for quarterly convenings, who will look at the trends and moments that will define the quarter to come. Here you can ask questions, learn and help to shape our strategy. You will have access to monthly salons, intimate conversations with platform leaders, academics, authors and thinkers about our shared digital future. You will have exclusive access to the Citizens Guide, a digital book series on topics like protecting your data, organizing against Big Tech and understanding algorithms. This is alongside other exclusive events and content, like film screenings, cultural events and pop-up actions to stop the tech coup, including emergency sessions during critical news moments.
To stop the tech coup we need to stick together. Join our community today.
About the Citizens
Founded in 2020 by Carole Cadwalladr, the Orwell prize’ winning investigative journalist, The Citizens is a not-for-profit journalism and campaigning organisation with a proven track record of exposing the nexus of technology, money and politics. We use storytelling to power movements that confront the unchecked power of Big Tech and governments , amplifying the voices of experts and civil society to shape the debate on tech companies’ impact on democracy.
Cambridge Analytica made clear that social media was putting our democracies at risk. Since then Big Tech and Big Data have exacerbated the problem. ‘Tech & State’ have entered an unholy alliance, feeding on the exploitation of our data. Hence, we built this organisation to not only tell stories about Big Tech’s growing political capture, but to find new and creative ways to challenge their narratives and take action against them.
We are a small team with a big network. From Nobel Laureate Maria Ressia in the Philippines, author and activist Shoshana Zuboff in the United States, Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia in the United Kingdom and hundreds more; we channel much needed global expertise into creative output and community events, building an alternative, global public square to challenge Big Tech domination.
Ways to support us
Subscriptions. You can opt-in for a paid plan here on Citizens Reunited, which will give you fast, timely and exclusive access to monthly salons with platform leaders, academics and thinkers, quarterly convenings with our Big Tech Oversight Board, and access to other live events, screenings, and action guides.
Membership. If you are less interested in our live events and broadcasts, but want to access our reporting, and community actions and workshops, you can sign up to the Citizens Dispatch, which we run on an open and nonprofit platform called Ghost. There, you can support us via recurring monthly donations. All the content on the Citizens Dispatch is open and paywall-free.
One-off and flexible donations. If you simply want to support our mission and enable us to carry out actions and campaigns against unwieldy Big Tech and State power, you can make a one-off or recurring donation via our main website as well. (Note: This would automatically NOT give you access to any of our newsletters, which you will have to opt-in for separately on those platforms.)
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