Your advice is appreciated. We are already on numerous social media platforms (minus Facebook and Reddit, due to censorship). Our website generates enough traffic as is, but we thought giving Steemit a try might be beneficial in our mission to inform readers of stories that are oftentimes overlooked by the MSM.
That being said, we may consider opting out of payouts on aggregated articles if we choose to continue using this platform, as monetary compensation is not our main priority. Even if we go this route, we'll probably still be targeted by cheetah, steemcleaners, etc. which will result in our reputation going further down the toilet; not sure if it's worth it.
Also, we DO NOT plagiarize as we ALWAYS provide citations for content that we do not own. For example, if you visit https://www.newsmediawatchdog.com/nmwd-news, ALL of our aggregated articles have backlinks to the original story/author near the very top. This is a common practice for many other news outlets and actually drives more referral traffic to the original source's website (i.e. helps them).
If anyone is confused about news aggregation, we suggest you view this article:
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