inDEPENDENT?

Cold machinery mangles information
Smashed into alternate prose
Feed the machine with golden coins
Paying for the words you chose

Liberated voices telling stories
Sharing these objective facts
Processed by the cold machinery
Decides the information it redacts

Objectivity within specific confines
Dictated by the machine algorithm
Funded with those golden motif coins
That widens this relentless schism

Opinions now on auction
Non-conformists paid in blood
Don’t concern yourself with details
Like any distant shareholder would

Stacking up those golden coins
Redact dictator, tyrant and despot
Insert instead the word visionary
The Independent? now perhaps not

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jul/29/saudi-investor-buys-up-significant-stake-in-the-independent