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What websites/apps/whatever do you use to get your news?

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (7 children)

https://www.improvethenews.org/

This is a free news aggregator and news analysis site developed by a group of researchers at MIT and elsewhere to improve your access to trustworthy news. Many website algorithms push you (for ad revenue) into a filter bubble by reinforcing the narratives you impulse-click on. By understanding other people’s arguments, you understand why they do what they do – and have a better chance of persuading them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Holy shit that's awesome. This may become my goto when linking stories to the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Do you know of anyway to add this to an RSS feed?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This sounds cool, lemme check it out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

First glance and already impressed with the details + mobile friendly view. Thanks for the pointer!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fascinating! Thanks for the link. This is the sort of thing I was hoping for.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You guys don't let a bunch of strangers in the internet curate the news for you, then fight them in the comments?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, actually, that's exactly what I do.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Absolutely not. I upvote all the people I agree with initially then down vote the dumbass who tried to go against us in our own thread!

Get your own damn thread down lower! Quit mooching our beans way up at the top.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

AP, unless the article is about a protest

Aljazeera, unless the article is about Qatar

Reuters, unless the article is about non-G20 countries

BBC, unless the article is about the UK

CBC, unless the article is about Canada

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I listen to NPR Up First podcast. The give you a nice overview in 10 minutes. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The streets. You can’t trust newspapers, tv, social media. But the streets, the streets you can always trust.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...Wouldn't most people in the streets be getting their news from tv and social media?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

infowars is the only trustworthy new source, amirite?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

reddit, lets be honest. we wouldnt be here if that wasnt our main source

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

It shows "all sides" from a distinctly far-right perspective.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The fact that Paul Krugman is considered "the Left" says so much about why the US is the way that it is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

NPR, Reuters, the AP, occasionally NYT or WaPo, Forbes, Business Insider, various tech blogs, local news channels, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We’re pretty much the same although I ditched WaPo cause Bezos.

I do add the BBC and France24 if there’s a large international story breaking.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't. I try to life in blissful arrogance despite knowning that the world around me is going to heck. I only care about local news that considers my city.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't read any news because they are all negative.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I use RSS to aggregate articles from different news sites. my feed's a bit nascent at the moment, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ground news

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm subscribed to three publications: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. I regularly read articles from The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, and other publications like ProPublica. I also read academic blogs on journalism, nuclear weapons, and other topics. I follow a lot of academics and experts on Twitter to get their hot takes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Shameless plug, c/moderate_politics :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like watching Phillip DeFranco in ~~YouTube~~ Invidious. When covering major stories he is very good at delivering crutial information simply and quickly, and while he does have opinions, they are always very transparent, so you can spot the bias from the facts. Also, he has a habit of correcting the rare mistakes this beautiful bastard makes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah I remember watching him years ago, good to know he's still around. Although it looks like he does more internet drama videos rather than real-world news

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's 50/50, he normally covers drama news first, and saves the big stories for the back end, he always includes timestamps, so if that's not your thing you can skip around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Theory night in Canada podcast

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@fantasy95 The threadiverse. I made an aggregator to suit my tastes https://fledd.it/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Somehow I always gravitate to the Atlantic ... so much that I actually felt bad after years of refreshing my browser for free articles, and now I actually pay real American dollars for a subscription.

Also, a few ultra local and free newspapers that with an online presence, especially when I'm in the mood to escape depressing national / international news.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I figure anything important I will either hear about or see on ~reddit~ Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

NYT, Wapo, NPR.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

App called ground news. Gives both sides of the spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

like a lot of people I found feedly.com around the time of Spez's ama and have been using threads like this to populate my feed.

Slashdot is still good btw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm in Canada, where the tech giants just blocked all Canadian media outlets due to new media profit sharing legislation.

I get my news from:

  • Nora Loreto's daily news podcast
  • Mastodon #cdnpoli #onpoli #topoli
  • Direct from CBC, Toronto Star
  • Lemmy
  • What my friend group shares on Discord.

I haven't been as invested in news lately, but this looks a little promising: https://dailycanada.ca/ It's an rss feed from all media outlets in Canada.

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