I'm not that familiar with axios but by the looks of things they are left-wing. Left of center for sure.
This is important context because it's wonderful to see their point of view for what is going down.
They are focusing on dailywire vs disney and other symptoms of the problem.
>Progressives are focused on making sure that the existing media and online platforms crack down on misinformation.
But who gets to define what is misinformation. Obviously progressives have taken this upon themselves to define.
>Conservatives increasingly feel disenfranchised by media from mainstream news outlets to social platforms and have begun to invest in alternatives.
because of... oh wait we just discussed it. Progressives have taken it upon themselves to define what is misinformation and are censoring conservatives. The conservatives then look at their criticisms fairly. Lab Leak was misinformation and censored. Oh wait that's pretty much fact now. Hunter Biden's laptop suddenly found to be legit? Nope, misinformation and needs to be censored.
And they are investing in alternatives? No no. that was years ago. There's now a dozen that are self-sufficient and better yet, growing to the size they are unstoppable.
The progressives who were pretty happy to censor legitimate stories are now pissed off they suddenly have no power anymore. They can't get on parler and censor their 'misinformation' stories.
>On the right, Donald Trump's new social network, which is struggling to launch
Shrug? It was years late. It's not even a big contender at all.
>Conservative billionaire Rebekah Mercer co-founded and funded conservative Twitter alternative Parler.
Yes but oh look again those progressives tried to cancel parler as well. Parler going offline for awhile kind of killed it.
>Media companies and online platforms in the past have thrived by serving as big an audience as possible without regard to political bent.
Who is creating this split? One side takes sole blame here.
>Zoom out: Since the aftermath of the January 6th Capitol riot when most internet companies de-platformed former President Donald Trump, conservatives have been aggressively building out alternative communications infrastructure, including their own cloud storage and cryptocurrency companies.
You're starting to see the picture. You dont even see 1/4 of the picture year but you're starting to see it.
>The bottom line: As this trend continues, companies that have long positioned themselves as apolitical will face overwhelming pressure to choose sides.
This doesn't make sense. You can be on twitter and parler at the same time. You dont have to pick sides. Companies that are apolitical can continue to do so.
In fact, what's more important is to see why they even say this. It's the same reason this article doesn't even name the actual replacements. They want to say Trump's new network is floundering. Attack, attack, attack.
The 'progressives' built their platforms on the backs of everyone and then ejected the right. Then are now angry that the conservatives didn't just roll over and die? What did you think would happen?