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Where do you go on Lemmy for reliable news and politics? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Ohthereyouare@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] normalmighty@programming.dev 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would argue trying to find news on social media is the big mistake. It's absolutely bad on Lemmy, but it's not that much better on other platforms. Any story that isn't a "win" for the larger portion of people on the platform will naturally struggle to get attention.

There's a whole rabbit hole to go down in trying to find a way to get a solid, rounded and accurate view of current events, but imo step one should be to throw away social media as a news source. It's only popular because the algorithms on other platforms will tell people what they want to hear.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

God damn that's a great point.

News is only remotely viable when done by a professional organization that at least tries to be impartial. You don't want your news to be filtered by upvotes at the end of the day. Never really considered that.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, especially on sites like Reddit or Lemmy where voting exists. The news you see will be the news that agrees with the majority opinion of the site. This isn't inherently negative as long as one is aware of it, but it seems too many people are unaware of their own echo chambers.