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The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's how I get my news. I visit the Finnish equivalence of BBC once or twice a day and that's my news diet. If they don't report on it, I don't need to know. Something like what a VOX journalist thinks about Twitter I couldn't care less so I don't even bother reading it. I'm proudly unaware of most of the things that non-serious news organizations report on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same for me with news from Germany. Technically tagesschau.de is a news magazine run by our largest public broadcaster and not the broadcaster itself, but it's the same thing really.

And then I casually browse news.google.com in German to skim over headlines that might not have made the mainstream news. My blocklist there features more than 200 "news" sites, so that I really get a curated feed of some 20-30 trustworthy ones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I wish there was a whitelist instead of a blocklist for news.google.com

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Vox is a reputable and very thorough news source, though, usually worth the read.

This two-pager, for example, highlights false Twitter journalists popping in Baltimore to politically spin the recent bridge collapse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That's not my point. What I'm saying is that I knowingly limit my news diet to what is the most important/interesting and this is neither so I'm not bothering my mind with it. I don't need to know and not knowing has zero effect on my life.