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Bot-curated world news. Very much under construction as is the rest of this instance. * Roundup summary posts about ongoing situations (Ukraine, Israel, Trump), instead of topic spam throughout the day * US and non-US cleanly separated * No auto summaries. Support your local journalist pls See also [email protected] for US news.

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A Famous Black Hole Gets a Second Look From Astronomers (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A society that doesn't want to pay its journalists will have 100% of its "news" generated by people who are paying to manipulate public opinion

[–] Gnomie 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree that journalists should be paid; that's not my point with the link from the bot. It shared a link that required payment to that specific news source. Is there a link to a source that doesn't require a subscription? Or perhaphs shouldn't that link have been identified as being behind a paywall?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm saying that paying for the newspaper is the best way to get past the paywall, in my opinion. Then the journalists can keep getting paid without the business having to get creative for who can give them money in exchange for them to be able to keep putting out the paper (which doesn't improve the quality of the news when it happens).