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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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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That’s what places like Lemmy are for though.

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago

Great for seeing a headline and then finding an article yourself. Less great for finding articles. Half of you people here have a penchant for linking super weird news sources.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even Lemmy does that, though. You're still influenced by the headline, the community/moderation and the users.

Assuming that everyone clicks through to the article, and doesn't comment before reading the headline, anyhow.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

And at the news organization, you are influenced by the editors and framing by authors.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Lemmy is massively biased though. While that doesn't mean the articles aren't factual, you're still only ever hearing one side of the story. What I find time after time is that majority of people who have strong opinions about current events are completely uncapable of fairly steelmanning the opposing side's argument.

[–] redfox@infosec.pub 5 points 10 months ago

Agreed.

Lemmy, you are biased. You probably don't intend to be, but it's true for now.

Going to sound weird, but I came here because of who I knew the vocal people were. I didn't understand many of their view points and reasons for being mad/hateful/etc. I am much more enlightened now and learn different perspectives everyday.

It is a giant echo chamber though if you are already very rooted in the spectrum here, and voicing decent usually leads to dog pile.

This is related to attitudes about news, politics, etc.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure why you think that news orgs aren't also biased. Everything and everyone is biased, even those that genuinely try to not let it show through and be fully impartial.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Sure, but you find out about things hours days or even weeks after they happen.