Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAYWe’ve done defence. With the far right marching in our streets, paid for by foreign billionaires and bolstered by Putin’s cyber-warfare machine, we cannot afford to sit back. That was a basic defensive move to protect against a website which has become a highly-partial cesspit of misinformation and algorithmically-charged hate. But we must also, as the far-right so often call for, call out scapegoating and blatant racism for what it is, and ensure that social media platforms provide the same protections. And it falls to us, the majority, to unite and prove that they will not define our future.