Citizen Journalism

Anyone can break a story. Imagine the volume of information that is suppressed in today’s news cycle because it does not fit the mainstream media narrative. We are creating an avenue for that information to be brought to light, by We the People, in an organized fashion. While there is an editorial element to this function of Liberty Contenders, and traditional journalistic standards will apply, editorial admins share your Conservative and Constitutional values. Content and stories, including photos, video, and interviews can easily be posted to your local Liberty Contenders instance. In fact, local stories with broad relevance can be upvoted and “escalated” to the state instance. In these cases, the story will then be visible in every Liberty Contenders locale across the state via a section called “News Across the State”. Similarly, once Liberty Contenders scales to multiple states, some submitted stories will even break to the national level. These stories will be publicly visible, and moderated comments will be allowed by users of the Liberty Contenders platform who have agreed to our values.

That describes the vision of the Citizen Journalism function of the platform. And as with every function of the system, it can be filtered to view stories at the local, state, or national level.