Social media has so many users now.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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American TV was a news source?
None are good and also guessing how shit these socials are at conveying news in one singular tab or none at all and are at mercy of the algorithms.
Bad to worse.
Bad news except you can't trust TV either. Or reading the news, lately. At least regardless of the medium, general advice carries-- double check sources, learn which are credible, etc.
I just hope people are following links and not just reading headlines, right? ...Right?
Well, fuck us. there no way television news can be trusted and absolutely no way most social media sites can be trusted. How quickly the information age destroyed information.
Social media is not a news source.
It is the source most Americans get their news from wether it's technically a news source in itself.
And that’s problematic as social media is harder to debunk due to how chronic bullshit flies.
Is it though. Are they gonna trust cousin Lenny more than the talking heads on a big TV show with production. Are you gonna sound more or less credible than cousin Lenny, now a big TV show with "experts"
Fox News on cable TV for life?
At least with social media, you can choose what content to engage with or scroll past. A lot of TV news is fear mongering non-news entertainment. I don't care that someone got arrested after a high speed chase. I don't care about someone's dog charity. What your local Sinclair is peddling, let alone Fox, is just about getting you to come back over and over for the ads, and it's a continuous feed of trash somekne else is deciding to put in your face and dub important.
Not that either are good but 🤢
Arent't we using one at the moment?
Lemmy has links to a variety of news sources, some more credible than others. I imagine there are people who link credible news sources on social media as well?
Sure, but my comment was directed specifically at the “top news source” part.
another case of “lesser evil”
TV being the lesser evil
I'd say they're equally meh due to not showing the whole picture. TV kinda says what feds allow 'em to, and antisocial media gives an easy way to filter only the news strengthening your beliefs in whatever (I.e. radicalization). But with the latter one can at least consciously add more perspectives [unless it's Facebook, and zuckwomble decides to conduct one of his mood control experiments or something]
msm is still worst thought, because the tradional network ones are under the control of conservatives. not by much.
"Old Evil".
Indian newspapers have launched partially automated YouTube channels, some with AI avatar presenters. Nearly a fifth of Indian readers said they use chatbots like ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini (including AI Overviews) weekly to access news. In the U.K., that number was only 3%.
I knew YouTube channels were popular as a news source in my country (with their over the top hysterical style) but didn't knew that Gemini/GPT was also getting big here.
I still read a digital version of a proper newspaper. I find it slightly more informative and factual. In the good old days, I used to get a physical newspaper because nothing beats the touch of paper.
Okay, I'm gonna give you a tip if you're interested in geopolitics and recent events: follow EvanWritesOnX. I don't have any actual social media accounts but you can read his posts without having a Twitter one, and he certainly seems to have a very clear view of what's happening. Take care!
Eh I'll stay away from Xitter.
Avoiding Xitter is understandable but the dude has had it right geopolitically since I remember!