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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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[–] aja@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Try Reuters or AP. I’ve been trying out the Boring app too recently which takes the sensationalism out of articles

[–] small44@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't

[–] ejsexton82@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Geostorm@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Biggest https://emm.newsbrief.eu/NewsBrief/clusteredition/en/latest.html Google News Alerts https://www.howtogeek.com/444549/how-to-create-an-rss-feed-from-a-google-alert/

.json file for RSS https://controlc.com/2ea2be74

[–] youthinkyouknowme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Kittybeer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Grey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

As much as I hate YouTube advertisers, I like ground news a lot as an aggregator site.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I do my best to avoid both.

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