• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    In 2013, IBT Media acquired Newsweek from IAC; the acquisition included the Newsweek brand and its online publication, but did not include The Daily Beast.[11] IBT Media, which also owns the International Business Times, rebranded itself as Newsweek Media Group, and in 2014, relaunched Newsweek in both print and digital form.

    In 2018, IBT Media split into two companies, Newsweek Publishing and IBT Media. The split was accomplished one day before the District Attorney of Manhattan indicted Etienne Uzac, the co-owner of IBT Media, on fraud charges.[12][13][14]

    IBT Media is an American global digital news organization with over 90 million monthly readers, owned by followers of religious leader David Jang.[1][2]

    Long story short, one of the more savvy outlets of the Evangelical right.

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      10 months ago

      Does that mean they’re turning on Trump? Because this sure isn’t a positive story about him.

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        They tend to try to seem centrist. They’re savvy about it, so they’re not necessarily interested in being caught out at being a straight-up, purist, propaganda rag.

        That said, I’m not sure if they support Trump or not. Not all evangelicals do, since he’s not very Jesus-like. I’ve been trying to remind people of that myself recently, despite not personally being a very religious person.

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          From what I see of the Evangelicals from the outside, their relation to Jesus seems to be fairly tenuous at best.

          The maze of US Christian sects is fairly confusing when seen from abroad.