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***** is a compilation of spins and downright lies, and in no way reflects serious journalism. Those who subscribe to it are just as clueless as those who write for it. Furthermore it's loaded with click-bait that leads to malware issues.
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rawstory.com has plenty of Pop Ups!
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This site carelessly spreads rumour and gossip and should not be considered a source of reliable news. Untrustworthy.
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Way too many pop-ups, ads (149 by the time page finished loading; nearly 500 by the time I closed the site). Alerts for privacy and possible malware. I certainly don't understand how anyone can "downvote" this since it is not an opinion, but purely a technical issue. ↘
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25 invisible, tracking  web bugs? For real?!!?!?!!! And over 700 ads that I've been able to block......... in a ten minute span! If it weren't so bad, it'd be funny!
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Good Site with great journalism. Safe for the whole family. The Raw Story has been reported on and featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, LA Weekly, the New York Post, the Toronto Star, The Hill, Rolling Stone, The Advocate, Roll Call,[2] and Mother Jones.[3] With an average 10.7 million readers per month (2015),[4] the site is described by Newsweek as, "Muck, raked: If you're looking for alleged GOP malfeasance, the folks at rawstory.com are frequently scooping the mainstream media."[5] On August 4, 2008 the Online News Association announced that ***** was a finalist in the 2008 Online Journalism awards in the "Liberal, Small Site" category[6] for the story "The permanent Republican majority",[7] about improper partisan influence in the prosecution of former Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama. The Raw Story's original reporting has also been referenced by MSNBC's Ed Schultz and Lawrence O'Donnell. The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. It was also referenced in 2011 by The Telegraph newspaper, as being the news website that first revealed a contract had been awarded to Ntrepid by United States Central Command as part of Operation Earnest Voice, intended to deploy operatives to create fake online personas abroad. Source: *****
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An incredibly laggy and resource intensive site that caused the computer I was using the freeze and crash. Using Adblock Plus made the lag go away, while blocking 387 TOTAL ADS on one article. Needless to say, I won't be going to this site until it gets it crap together.
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Looks fine, different kind of site
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Claims to be "Independent journalism" but in reality is just anothe rfar left hack site. Censors any comments soley based on disagreement with site viewpoint.
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ghostery found 44 trackers. a few of them were widgets.which is okay but there are alot of adware trackers.
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This site is Hilarious. It's so far left-wing loony I thought it was parady at first. If you comment and disagree with them in anyway or view even a slightly different view point, they immediately delete you comment and blcok you from commenting any more. Serously, try it. Just type the most friendly, non-threatening, kind-hearted comment that disagrees with their view-point in any way and see what happens. LOL. These people are pathetic. Their idea of freedom and free speech is, agree with everything we think and say or be purged. A bunch of little commie-fascio Hitler and Stalin worshippers I'm guessing. LOL! Soon they'll be seen burning books.
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A lot of the RawStory stuff is sensationalistic but that's okay, it's that they also feature tons of NewsMax links, 99% of which are outright junk and lies. I can but think they're trying to draw in normals and leftish people with the idea of exposing them to the racism and rightwing lies on NewsMax.
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In the article "For The Misogynist Trolls: Your Repulsive Personality Is Not Inevitable" on the site they suggested that all male complaints stem from not getting laid. If any site did the same type of article with reversed genders it would be considered hate speech.
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Excellent news aggregate site of domestic and foreign links including own staff writers.
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This website is tracking you via 22 trackers. (Found via Ghostery.) Not 3, not 6, not even 10. TWENTY TWO. Privacy my ass.
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12 (!) scripts for tracking/advertising companies (per NoScript). Good privacy? Trustworthy? See *****
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Great news stories. The headline editor could take note from others. But the stories are always better than the headline looks. Good site!
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too many popup's so they can capture your email adx
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Interesting news site. Some pretty interesting stories and in-depth reporting.
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http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/rawstory.com This site runs on out of date Wordpress software.
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