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[–] [email protected] 83 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stop up voting Newsweek. They are not a reputable publication.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Without being condescending, can you give sauce? And for reference, what you consider reputable publications?

[–] zenitsu 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Newsweek isn't terrible (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/newsweek), but sources like reuters or associated press are usually more reliable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Seems reasonable. I've tried improvethenews.org, which is an AI attempt at balanced reporting. But I've found it to put too much equal representation of the extreme right viewpoints, which are not on planet earth so I have to filter/ignore all the pro Trump gibberish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The fact check link posted by the other user is good.

Newsweek tends to take some news fact, often not even fact but a possible outcome of some developing story, and write a full opinion piece on a tangent.

We get a lot of Salon articles here doing the same thing.

As far as reputable, I would say apnews, Reuters, politico, CNN, BBC off the top of my head.

I know CNN will be contested. They have an annoying amount of opinion in their stories, but I do find that they clearly separate what's objective fact and what's editorial opinion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Those are what I use. I've tried improvethenews.org, which is based upon AI trying to give balanced articles, but when one side of the political spectrum is so extreme it's not "balanced" to have equal representation so I have to filter/ignore the pro Trump BS.