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Where do you go on Lemmy for reliable news and politics?
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I don't get my news from any social media platform, including lemmy, no offense to lemmy. I used to do that with reddit, but it's just too unhinged getting your news that way.
I stick with Associated Press, Reuters, and The New York Times, in that order. I also use Google News specifically for local news, but I don't even peek at the main world news feed there.
More generally speaking, I stick to the old school human editorial board for my news. News that's presented to me on AP, for example, has already been filtered by a board of humans who are smarter than me and whose opinions I trust on the state of the world. Opening up your selection of news to an easily gameable social media algorithm is just more trouble than it's worth, in my opinion.
Even the NYT has been pretty shady recently. Particularly in regards to their trans coverage. Here's the story from GLAAD and on NPR.
Sorry, I have to admit that I'm not the best at keeping up with LGBTQ+ news, so I wasn't aware of that controversy. I'll keep an eye on that and see how it shakes out. If NYT continues to stir controversy, then I can switch. I'm not particularly attached to them. Washington Post would be a good replacement, and I saw that GLAAD article mention that WP's LGBTQ+ coverage is better.