• ree@lemmy.ml
      10·
      3 years ago

      It a really good source of info.

      You get easily digestible academic papers on current topics.

      It’s free as in beer and freedom.

      And from my academic standpoint they seem to do a really good job although I have not yet written an article with them.

  • ozoned@lemmy.ml
    9·
    3 years ago

    I’m in the US so Reuters, NPR, AP. But there are so many “news” websites around anymore I usually take everything I read with a dose of skepticism and I look at Snopes and MediaBiasFactCheck often.

      • pinknoise@lemmy.ml
        4·
        3 years ago

        Yes please asses the credibility of their articles based on their associations with shady companies instead of the contents plausibility.

      • ozoned@lemmy.ml
        21·
        3 years ago

        If you have other suggestions in open to getting them, but I’m not sure how being a Facebook checker is a negative thing. Facebook needs LOTS of checking. Not a huge fan of Google Analytics, but I can hide myself from that stuff anyway, so also not a big deal really.

        Basically they’re better than nothing.

          • ozoned@lemmy.ml
            31·
            3 years ago

            I don’t think Facebook is anything but an awful cesspool. But stating Snopes is just as bad without evidence, doesn’t help the conversation.

            As I stated if you have other suggestions I’m open to getting them. Just stating “Nope, bad!” Without giving evidence, outside of affiliation, doesn’t help the conversation, nor does it direct folks to trustworthy sources.

              • ozoned@lemmy.ml
                21·
                3 years ago

                Yes I do need more evidence then that. Snopes is known as a trustworthy source. So it makes sense for Facebook to hire them. Did Snopes compromise their integrity it did they try to do the job the best they can?

                What you’re suggesting is basically on the level of an attorney decides to defend someone in a murder, even if that person didn’t commit it, that the attorney should also be charged on the murder if found guilty. That’s not how it works.

                You can attempt to do good, even while working with someone awful. Guilt by association is draconian.

  • outplayed @lemmy.ml
    7·
    3 years ago

    I have to lean myself off of social media for news. I’m transitioning to just getting all my news off of RSS feeds, which I subscribe to various sites that I trust.

  • ree@lemmy.ml
    7·
    3 years ago

    Mainstream: RSS from national newspaper (on the todo list) or their paper version if I have time at work.

    tech and activism: mastodon, lemmy

  • Seferi@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 years ago

    My nextcloud server syncs several RSS news feed which then syncs to my phone and other devices…

    • quiteStraightEdge@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      I had some errors with that… but thanks for reminding me of this feature. I got to work on it to make it work.

      If you want you could post your RSS links here so others could copy them :)

  • Metawish@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 years ago

    Work at a news station, so I see the national and local news every day. Also some email subs and social media like lemmy and mastodon, sometimes Tumblr

  • riccardo@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 years ago

    RSS feeds from a number of sites. Mainly Il Post to keep up with what’s happening in the world and in my country. I frequently browse lemmy and sometimes HackerNews. I also follow some subreddits. I keep up with both RSS feeds and reddit feeds from Telegram, because it’s easy to use both from desktop and mobile, and I can easily share news to family & friends, or forward them to a bot that saves them to my Wallabag

    • tronk@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      I like this. I hope that Lemmy becomes large enough so that I eventually feel that the news is constantly being uploaded by users, especially local news!

      • Jeffrey@lemmy.ml
        9·
        3 years ago

        I worry that using link aggregators and micro blogging for news is not a form that is conducive to positive outcomes. I don’t remember where, but it might have been on the Center for Humane Technology’s podcast where I found out about a team of engineers who recommended the separation of community and news consumption.

        When reading a traditional newspaper or news feed the reader consumes the news alone, and they have time to process what they have read and form their own opinions. When consuming news from social media sources the reader will usually be heavily influenced by the dominate opinions in the comments section, and they are less likely to form their own opinions.

        In other words, the structure of a Reddit, Lemmy, Twitter, or Facebook is fundamentally geared toward eroding civic discourse and critical thought while fostering mob-mentality.

        Some of the proposed engineering fixes were to disallow posting to comments sections until the reader passed some check that verified they read an entire article, and only allowing the user to read others comments after the user had either posted their own comment, or enough time (hours or days) had lapsed so that the user would likely have formed their own opinions and would be less likely to engage in emotional group-think.

        Verifying commenters read an entire article would be challenging and annoying, and a time-delay before posting would undermine the appeal of current social media, however, so these ideas haven’t been explored.

        Edit: Change pronouns to be more inclusive.

        • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
          3·
          3 years ago

          then maybe we c0uld have a news community without comments, or well, i didnt use to read news before because reaching to so many of them was exhausting so its better than nothing i guess

  • Cohort Czort@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    I don’t really worry about news atm, nothing i can do about what’s going on. I figure the best thing i can do is gather knowledge.