A news aggregator will crawl the web looking for news items of interest and they will compile these (aggregate them) and display them on a website - usually, just a headline and a teaser 'graph or two. They make their money via advertising and promotional placement. Drudge Report is one of the first and best known.
NewsBreak is more recent (six years old) and seems to cover the news pretty well.
Turns out they have a deep dark secret.
From The Epoch Times:
News Break App Founded, Controlled, and Backed by Chinese Entities
Connections between China and News Break, a top news aggregation app in the United States, have been exposed.
On May 23, the Boston-based The Wire China website published an in-depth investigation revealing News Break’s deep ties with China.
News Break began in 2015, when Jeff Zheng founded Particle Media Inc. in Delaware.
Jeff Zheng is also the founder Chinese news app Yidian Zixun.
Before the investigation was published, the Yidian’s website listed the establishment of Particle Media as a milestone in the company’s growth, with the following description:
“In April 2015, Yidian Zixun established Particle Media, an affiliate company in Silicon Valley, to launch its global strategic deployment, and the English version of Yidian Zixun, News Break, was recommended by the U.S. App store twice in a row and has become a popular news aggregation application in the United States.”
Much much more at the site - lots of links. They are a house organ of the Chinese Communist Party. They are being careful to not be blatant about it but I bet that the "nudge" is happening all the time in their reportage.
Doubt me? I can prove it with one image:
I cropped my screen-cap so you can read the URL clearly. I am searching newsbreak.com for Tiananmen Square and they are returning zero results. Does not exist. No historical significance. Nope. Nada. Nothing to see here.
Not a peep about the June 4, 1989 massacre by the Communist Chinese army of from 300 to "thousands" of students and protestors with 10,000 arrested. Brings to mind this quote:
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
― Kevin Alfred Strom
I do not agree with Mr. Strom on 99.9% of what he has to say but on this particular matter, he absolutely nails it.
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