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We’re inching closer to our $5,000 goal for this summer! If you’re able to donate, please help us! OptOut is a nonprofit, which means we rely on the generosity of our community to keep us going. As a result, we can assure you our app and the aggregated and original reporting we provide is 100% free—to access, and from corporate influenc

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by OptOut Team

1 min read

Introducing Your New OptOut Climate 🌏 LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈 and New York 🏙️ Editors!

This is the newsletter of OptOut, a free news aggregation app for exclusively independent media that's available for Find out more about the app at Over Profit. The OptOut Media Foundation recently launched its end-of-year fundraising We need to raise $50,000 in individual contributions by the end of 2022 so we can continue advocating for

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by Alex Kotch

6 min read

Trust in Media is Near Record Low

This is the newsletter of OptOut, a free news aggregation app for exclusively independent media that's available for Find out more about the app at is out with a new that Americans' trust is media remains near a record low. Just 34% of respondents have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the mass media (newspapers, TV, and radio). >...

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by Alex Kotch

3 min read

Independent LGBTQ+ Media Are Essential For Our Basic Rights

This is the newsletter of OptOut, a free news aggregation app for exclusively independent media that's available for Apple and Android devices. Find out more about the app at again, y’all. For those of you who haven’t caught my biweekly LGBTQ+ section in our newsletter, I’m Liana DeMasi, the LGBTQ+ editor here at OptOut. Our year-end...

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by Liana DeMasi

6 min read

Help Independent Media Compete with the Corporate Giants

This is the newsletter of OptOut, a free news aggregation app for exclusively independent media that's available for Apple and Android devices. Find out more about the app at happy to report that the OptOut Media Foundation has made progress towards our 2022 fundraising goal! Since we announced our fundraiser, we've now raised $3,400, or

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by Alex Kotch

2 min read

For People, Not Profit. Worthy of your support.

This is the newsletter of OptOut, a free news aggregation app for exclusively independent media that's available for Apple and Android devices. Find out more about the app at news needs your support. This month we turned two, and we're proud of what we've built—a sophisticated, hand-curated news app downloaded on 10,000 devices, a...

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by Alex Kotch

5 min read

📱The OptOut Android App is Live! 🎉

This is the newsletter of OptOut, a free news aggregation app for exclusively independent media that's available for Apple and Android devices. Find out more about the app at long last, OptOut News is available for Android! Thank you for your patience as we developed the app and got through an unexpectedly long approval process. You can...

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by OptOut Team

2 min read