Free News Platforms

Dec. 2, 2024: Free News Platforms

Summary

This post summarizes the leading free internet platforms and websites available to the public to learn about the latest news and events … with a focus on politics and government.

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Social Media

Republican Leaning

Joe Rogan
URL: joerogan.com
The Joe Rogan Experience podcast is a long form conversation hosted by comedian Joe Rogan with friends and guests that have included comedians, actors, musicians, MMA fighters, authors, artists, and beyond.
YouTube   Spotify  Wikipedia entry

Tucker Carlson Network
URL: tuckercarlson.com
The Tucker Carlson Network (TCN) is a streaming platform founded by Tucker Carlson after his departure from Fox News. It aims to provide “fearless conversations about the things that actually matter” and is guided by the principle of telling the truth.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

Breitbart News Network
URL:  breitbart.com/
Breitbart News Network is an American far-right news and opinion website founded in 2007 by conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart. It is known for its strong conservative and nationalist viewpoints, often taking controversial stances on social and political issues.
Wikipedia entry  

Ben Shapiro Show
URL: Daily Wire dwplus.watch/BenShapiro
Ben Shapiro is a renowned conservative political pundit, syndicated columnist, lawyer, and NYT bestselling author. He is Editor Emeritus of news and opinion site The Daily Wire and host of the popular video podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

Don Bongino Show
URL:  bongino.com/
He’s a former Secret Service Agent, former NYPD officer, and New York Times best-selling author. Join Dan Bongino each weekday as he tackles the hottest political issues, debunking both liberal and Republican establishment rhetoric.
Spotify

Newsmax  
URL: newsmax.com/
Newsmax Media, Inc. is a multimedia and broadcasting company that offers independent news with a conservative perspective.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

X (formerly Twitter)   

URL: x.com 
“X” is a social media platform, previously known as Twitter, where users share short messages called “posts” (formerly “tweets”) with a character limit of 280 characters, allowing them to quickly share thoughts, news updates, links, images, and short videos with their followers.
Wikipedia entry

Meta

Facebook
URLs:   Facebook.com
Facebook, now known as Meta, is a popular social media platform that allows users to connect with friends and family, share photos and videos, and engage in online communities. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and has since grown into one of the largest social networks in the world.
 Wikipedia entry

Instagram
URL: Instagram.com 

Threads
URL: threads.com
Wikipedia entry

TikTok

URL: tiktok.com/en/
TikTok is a popular social media platform known for its short-form video content. Users can create and share videos on various topics, from comedy and dance to education and DIY. The app’s algorithm is designed to personalize the user experience, showing videos that are likely to be of interest based on their viewing history.
Wikipedia entry

Bluesky

URL:   bsky.social
Bluesky is a decentralized social media platform that allows users to share text, images, and videos in short posts. It was founded in 2019 as a research project at Twitter and spun off into its own company in 2021. Bluesky is designed to be a more open and decentralized alternative to other social media platforms, giving users more control over their content and data.
Wikipedia entry

Democratic Leaning

Meidas Touch News
URL:  meidasnews.com/
MeidasTouch Network (MTN) was founded by three brothers Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas. MTN is a pro-democracy news network. MTN has quickly established itself as one of the most viewed and visited news networks in the world. MeidasTouch is independently owned and operated.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

Pod Save America
URL:  crooked.com/
Pod Save America is an American progressive political podcast developed and distributed by Crooked Media. The podcast debuted in January 2017 and airs three times per week, hosted by a rotating cast of former Barack Obama staffers Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor, Jon Lovett, and Dan Pfeiffer.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

The Young Turks
URL:  tyt.com/
The Young Turks (TYT) is an American populist progressive news commentary show live streamed on social media platforms YouTube and Twitch.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

The David Pakman Show (TDPS)
URL:  davidpakman.com
TDPS is one of the most viewed progressive political channels on YouTube, and is hosted by David Pakman
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

Rumble with Michael Moore
URL:  michaelmoorepodcast.com
Academy Award-winning filmmaker and political provocateur Michael Moore offers his subversive and humorous take on the issues of the day and talks to a wide range of people from comedians and politicians to the people who’ve tried to kill him. Plus various mischief with Mike’s friends, family and the neighbors who don’t work for the NSA.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

Informational Websites

Substack

URL: substack.com
Substack is a platform that empowers writers and creators to build independent businesses through subscription newsletters. It provides a comprehensive solution for publishing, payment, analytics, and design, enabling creators to focus on their content while Substack handles the technical aspects.
Wikipedia entry

Nonprofit News Sources

Associated Press
URL:  apnews.com/
The Associated Press (AP)[4] is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Since the award was established in 1917, the AP has earned 59 Pulitzer Prizes, including 36 for photography.
Wikipedia entry

Tangle News
URL:  .readtangle.co
We are independent, non-partisan, and subscriber-supported, with a newsletter read by over 275,000 people in 55+ countries across the world and a podcast that reaches hundreds of thousands of listeners every month. Our audience is made up of conservatives, liberals, independents, and those who don’t identify with any political tribe.
Wikipedia entry

States Newsroom
URL:  statesnewsroom.com
States Newsroom is a nonprofit news network with newsrooms or a partner news organization in all 50 U.S. states that focus mostly on state policy and politics.
Wikipedia entry

The Conversation

URL:  theconversation.com
The Conversation is a network of nonprofit media outlets publishing news stories and research reports online, with accompanying expert opinion and analysis. Articles are written by academics and researchers under a Creative Commons license, allowing reuse without modification.
Wikipedia entry

Wikipedia

URL:  wikipedia.org/
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Political & Government Websites

Smerconish

URL: smerconish.com
Michael Smerconish hosts The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM’s POTUS Channel and a weekly program on CNN and CNN International. He also oversees a website with news headlines and a Daily Poll.
Previous Poll Results.  Wikipedia

Politico

URL:  politico.com/
Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company. It covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally, with publications dedicated to politics in the U.S., European Union, United Kingdom, and Canada, among others.
YouTube  Wikipedia entry

Axios

URL:  axios.com/
Axios is an American news website based in Arlington, Virginia. It was founded in 2016 and launched the following year by former Politico journalists Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz. The site’s name is based on the Greek: ἄξιος (áxios), meaning “worthy of”.
YouTube      Wikipedia entry

The Hill

URL:  thehill.com/
The Hill, formed in 1994, is an American newspaper and digital media company based in Washington, D.C.  Focusing on politics, policy, business and international relations, The Hill’s coverage includes the U.S. Congress, the presidency and executive branch, and election campaigns. Its stated output is “nonpartisan reporting on the inner workings of Government and the nexus of politics and business”.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

TV Networks

MSNBC

URL:  msnbc.com/
MSNBC is an American cable news channel owned by the NBCUniversal News Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. First launched on July 15, 1996, and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, the channel primarily broadcasts news coverage and liberal political commentary.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

PBS NewsHour

URL:   pbs.org/newshour/
PBS News Hour, previously stylized as PBS NewsHour, is the news division of PBS and an American daily evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS member stations since October 20, 1975. It airs seven nights a week, and is known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

CNN

URL:  cnn.com/
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

YouTube

URL:  youtube.com
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Wikipedia entry

Legacy Networks

ABC News
URL:   abcnews.go.com/
ABC News (United States), a news-gathering and broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

CBS News
URL:   cbsnews.com/
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS. CBS News television programs include the CBS Evening News, CBS Mornings, news magazine programs CBS News Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, and 48 Hours, and Sunday morning political affairs program Face the Nation.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

NBC News
URL: nbcnews.com/
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, a division of NBCUniversal, which is, in turn, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

Fox News

URL:   foxnews.com/
PBS News Hour, previously stylized as PBS NewsHour, is the news division of PBS and an American daily evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS member stations since October 20, 1975. It airs seven nights a week, and is known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events.
YouTube     Wikipedia entry

Newspaper Websites

The Atlanta Constitution


URL:   ajc.com/
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is an American daily newspaper based in metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia. It is the flagship publication of Cox Enterprises.
 Wikipedia entry

ProPublica

URL:   propublica.org/
ProPublica is a nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in New York City. ProPublica’s investigations are conducted by its staff of full-time investigative reporters, and the resulting stories are distributed to news partners for publication or broadcast.
Wikipedia entry

The Intercept

URL:   theintercept.com/
The Intercept is an American left-wing[1][2][3] nonprofit news organization that publishes articles and podcasts online.
YouTube    Wikipedia entry

Washington Examiner

URL:   washingtonexaminer.com/
The Washington Examiner is an American conservative news outlet based in Washington, D.C., consisting of a website and a weekly printed magazine. It is owned by Philip Anschutz through MediaDC, a subsidiary of Clarity Media Group.
Wikipedia entry

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