Month: December 2024

NewsBreak, Americans’ Most Downloaded News App, Poses Likely Chinese Communist Threat

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The top news aggregator app in the U.S. opens another door for China to undermine American society

Chinese-owned NewsBreak provides the Chinese Communist Party the ability to highlight chaos and amplify conspiracies and discord among Americans through its news content and comment sections. The app boasts 50 million monthly users and became the top-ranked app in the News category on Google Play in 2021.

NewsBreak claims to fill the gap created by the loss of tens of thousands of newsroom jobs and the closing of most countywide newspapers, but this overnight success comes with shoddy and subversive tactics to gain unfair market advantages and influence in the U.S.

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Elections Matter in Who Spends Where

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One of the craziest things happened during the week after the election. My local bar was empty during a Vanderbilt home game.

On face value, that may not seem so strange. After all, Vandy is known as the redheaded—shall we say, blackhaired—stepchild of the Southeastern Conference. But this year is different because the Commodores are actually good. Nashvillians—native and transplant alike—have rooted in force for the ‘Dores after that glorious victory over the hated Alabama Crimson Tide that prompted the Vandy student section to baptize one of their goalposts in the Cumberland River.

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