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One Trait Makes NewsBreak a Terrifying Platform
There are many scary things about NewsBreak, but one reigns supreme
I have been writing on NewsBreak for over a year, off and on. As a political writer, it is primetime for writing NewsBreak articles because elections are right around the corner and they are on the top of people’s minds. But as I have been writing lately and seeing a tidy sum come into my bank account at the end of each month I also have been reading some of the comments. Many writers say not to check comments on NB because they can be harsh, but I deliberately write articles that get that response.
So, after reading the diatribe of unintelligible conservative phonemes strung together into their best sentences I have come to the conclusion that NewsBreak is terrifying for one reason:
The readers believe that it is a real news site.
I routinely get labeled as “fake news” or that NewsBreak is a leftist website and that I am a horrid excuse for a reporter. I get called a “libtard” on the daily. Readers continually deride my writing as leftist propaganda and call me a Marxist.
It is really entertaining.
But the worst part is that the readers don’t understand that absolutely anyone in the world can publish to NewsBreak and be a…