I recommend Memeorandum[0] if you can't pull the plug entirely. It's "an auto-generated summary of the stories that US political commentators are discussing online right now.", and you've got a zillion sources right there at your fingertips if you want to see the various sides of any given issue.
My wife asked me about this just today; she's trying to wean herself off of Twitter, but it's useful to her for keeping on top of "news" (you can get it to do that if you set your feed just so). I didn't really have a good answer for how she might do that without Twitter other than something like Reddit; the mix of human interest + culture + news is hard to reproduce.
I've got an itch in the back of my brain telling me the next winning "social" media app will be one that can capture that "news feed" aspect of Reddit, Twitter and Facebook, but without enabling the direct interaction that ruins those platforms, but I'm kind of "terminally online" at this point so my PoV is likely skewed.
(Because I'm terminally online) Kind of like somehow disabling /all chat in LoL -- a way to consume the news/content without the toxic infighting and abuse the Internet apparently triggers in people.
My wife asked me about this just today; she's trying to wean herself off of Twitter, but it's useful to her for keeping on top of "news" (you can get it to do that if you set your feed just so). I didn't really have a good answer for how she might do that without Twitter other than something like Reddit; the mix of human interest + culture + news is hard to reproduce.
I've got an itch in the back of my brain telling me the next winning "social" media app will be one that can capture that "news feed" aspect of Reddit, Twitter and Facebook, but without enabling the direct interaction that ruins those platforms, but I'm kind of "terminally online" at this point so my PoV is likely skewed.
(Because I'm terminally online) Kind of like somehow disabling /all chat in LoL -- a way to consume the news/content without the toxic infighting and abuse the Internet apparently triggers in people.
[0] https://www.memeorandum.com/