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I'm enjoying Lemmy so far, for the most part.

Everything here is pretty good save for the fact that all the news and politics I can find is dominated by the same few accounts.

Half or more of the accounts have a very clear agenda. They modify headlines. Lie. Spread disinformation. And generally are just extremely toxic groups.

It doesn't seem to be a secret here either. And moderators appear to have no interest in putting a stop to it.

So, where are you subbed to for reliable news and US/Global politics?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get my news from any social media platform, including lemmy, no offense to lemmy. I used to do that with reddit, but it's just too unhinged getting your news that way.

I stick with Associated Press, Reuters, and The New York Times, in that order. I also use Google News specifically for local news, but I don't even peek at the main world news feed there.

More generally speaking, I stick to the old school human editorial board for my news. News that's presented to me on AP, for example, has already been filtered by a board of humans who are smarter than me and whose opinions I trust on the state of the world. Opening up your selection of news to an easily gameable social media algorithm is just more trouble than it's worth, in my opinion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Even the NYT has been pretty shady recently. Particularly in regards to their trans coverage. Here's the story from GLAAD and on NPR.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I have to admit that I'm not the best at keeping up with LGBTQ+ news, so I wasn't aware of that controversy. I'll keep an eye on that and see how it shakes out. If NYT continues to stir controversy, then I can switch. I'm not particularly attached to them. Washington Post would be a good replacement, and I saw that GLAAD article mention that WP's LGBTQ+ coverage is better.