Media Liberation Day is finally here, and the Media Revolution has begun.
It’s time to celebrate support, achievements, actions and our continued commitment to collaborate, coordinate and remove the control of the billionaire owners corrupting our media system and build one that works in favour of people and planet!
Change the Media – Change the Future.
5 achievements for 5th November – and 5 ways for you to take part.
- UNITE!
One of the most significant milestones of Media Liberation Day is the formation of a brand new Media Consumers Union.
Research shows that consumer unions have driven higher standards for many of today’s consumables – including food, medicines and transport – but they are a forgotten and neglected tool, and up until now the rights of the media consumer have been overlooked. Touch Paper is set to become a powerful and influential organisation standing up for our right to accurate information and protection from disinformation and division. The union will be a collective force of members who challenge media outlets to do better. It will campaign for effective media regulation, and do so by deploying the power of resistance: public boycotts and digital divestment from the attention economy.
Take part: Join the union here - NEW PLATFORM
Media Revolution has worked with one of our supporters – Newsmast – a charity working in social media – to set up Mo-Me – a new news and social networking platform offering ‘consensual content’.
Mo-Me – short for Movement Media – provides a free news feed from independent, well regulated media and grassroots campaigns, with no ads or algorithms. It’s built on the open web, so the software is shared – meaning it’s interconnected to millions of other users around the globe who are already working on better media – and there are no billionaire owners.
Take part: Join Mo-Me here - GET TOGETHER
As well as challenging it at source, we’re improving media literacy for people and reducing social isolation through the creation of a network of News Clubs.
People are getting together to analyse newspaper reports, TV news and social media posts, identifying manipulative content to ask ‘who’s behind this? And what do we do about it?
Take part: Find out about News Clubs here - SUPPORT THE SUPPORTERS
We’ve brought together a coalition of diverse supporters from around the world: independent media, campaign organisations and the tech sphere, who – up until now – have been fighting their own battles against the dominance of billionaire owners and influential lobby groups. We’re the start of a co-ordinated, collaborative response to the complex media problem: using the core responses of ‘replace, regulate, radicalise and resist’. 2026 will be a year to grow the supporter network further, and to work on the interconnectedness of our efforts.
Take part: View the supporters and join as a supporter here - TAKE ACTION
The mobilisation of resistance and grassroots defiance is growing too; the Cover Story campaign has inspired people to hit back at toxic headlines, while the Media Revolution penguin activists have directly targeted UK newspaper and social media HQs to demand better.
Take part – in cover story here
All these activities are part of an active pushback against what the malignant media is doing to our minds – menticide.
Very simply, it means that instead of our brains receiving and processing helpful content, the billionaires are brainwashing us. The confusion, unease and alienation we feel are deliberately induced. But they’re also a kind of immune response; a sign that something is wrong, triggering a defence mechanism we need to act upon.
So let’s keep working together – to challenge, remove or replace the billionaire owners who are corrupting our media systems and build alternatives together.
We’re so glad you’re with us on Media Liberation day and we’re hoping you’ll join us in saying #ByeByeMenticide