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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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[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 year ago (21 children)

More to the point: where does anybody go for any reliable news? It seems like most news is now using hyperbole to make it entertainment. We have old man Rupert to thank for basically destroying a respected profession. That's my 0.02 anyhow.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (10 children)

While not perfect AP and Reuters are ok. The news they report is honest but their shortcoming is what they don't report.

[–] MrPear 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish for AP to have RSS feeds, but they don't. I think they and Reuters are aome of the better outlets out there and I've been (re)discovering RSS lately, but AP is one of the few news outlets that don't seem to support it :(

[–] pensivepangolin 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

RSSbridge may have you covered there! They’ve got a bunch of instances running you can check!

[–] MrPear 4 points 1 year ago

Interesting! I'm going to look into it, thanks!

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

Quite right, AP do have rss news feeds (rsshub is one - amongst others) - there are posts on lemmy related to this topic.

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