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

submitted 2 years 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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[-] zdrvr@lemm.ee 96 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ablackcatstail@lemmy.goblackcat.com 8 points 2 years ago

Those are pretty good examples. They are still not great places to go but they certainly suck a whole lot less than the others. Hell, even the weather is now being reported as entertainment.

[-] MrPear@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Rambler@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] MrPear@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

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