I wouldn't rely too much on lemmy for news and politics tbh, because posts can sway on way or another or even not get traction because most people don't agree with it. Instead I think it's better something like a RSS feed where you can pick your sources, or maybe just check a couple of less biased news outlets, so you can somehow have a more broad overview of what's going from different perspectives.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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I don't
I learned on Reddit not to trust any world news or political news posts. I was tricked a couple of times by fake posts. I still browse the posts, but I take everything I read with a grain of salt.
I use news apps for my news.
Try Reuters or AP. Iβve been trying out the Boring app too recently which takes the sensationalism out of articles
Someone here posted a link to fledd.it and I started to go there for my news: https://fledd.it it's a news aggregate.
For international politics I watch and read news sources from India, they are somewhat biased against Pakistan (thou, I believe, even there are truthful) and for everything else looks quite neutral.
I don't think there is any reliable source for US politics, too much interests are in play and even if someone is truthful and reliable I don't know how to assess that. But I do take a look at Democracy Now since they don't sound sensationalistic.
As much as I hate YouTube advertisers, I like ground news a lot as an aggregator site.
An interesting project here on this front is lemmy.link: https://lemmy.link/communities
They create RSS feeds from external sources and dump the feeds into lemmy communities.
So itβs an RSS aggregator native to lemmy so that we can up/down vote and comment or cross post too.
Seems like an interesting way to take the arbitrariness out of what gets posted and instead focus on actually reading, assessing and commenting on the news.
The Ground app