I got the google news ap and it's solid right wing nonsense.

[mahina]

Last edited Fri Dec 2, 2022, 10:18 AM - Edit history (2)

On google.com/news you can edit the feed.
( update- I didn’t choose to log in to my google account on launching the ap but instead selected “skip it”. So it appears this is what people are being fed as a default.)

On the ap without my google loggin it’s fox bs with no option to choose. Really vile and alarming to see.

Twitter is off the rails with the mass exodus of us lefties and all the monsters out of monster jail.

The Fb news feed is mostly junk.

Relevant:

[calimary]

1. Well, we are here. And that's not a bad thing!

In fact, sometimes it’s the only thing besides my husband that keeps me sane.

[William Seger]

12. DU is the best news aggregator on the web

The Home page here is my most often loaded web page -- by far! -- mainly for the Latest Breaking News column.

[calimary]

36. Totally!

[vlyons]

2. Best to stay right here with dear ol' DU

nt

[mahina]

3. Hmmm we need news. I subscribe to The Atlantic and NYT

Quit my Washington Post subscription not that long ago.

Can’t subscribe to everything. Without direct sources easily gathered we might see a further reduction in relevant posts here too. Hope not.

[barbtries]

17. between us we're good

I unsubscribed to the NYT years ago, but still have WP, the Atlantic, and the local paper.

I watch videos from time to time but no TV.

[634-5789]

4. The FB ...the entire damned site, is JUNK.

[GoneOffShore]

5. Let's see: I get Robert Reich, Amy Siskind, Rebecca Solnit, Heather Cox-Richardson, John Pavlovitz

Blue Wave Liberals, Democrats Abroad, NYT, New Yorker, Insufferably Intolerant Science Nerd, plus links to ex-pat/immigrant groups in France.
YMMV

[634-5789]

6. Still, it's rife with crap, so....no thanks.

[GoneOffShore]

9. All depends how one sets the filters and who one follows.

I also get links from Charlie Pierce, Josh Shapiro, Raphael Warnock.

And I use it to follow photographers, French history and tourism sites.

But you hate it. We get that.

Facebook is a tool.

[TwilightZone]

16. It only shows what you allow it to show.

Don't like content on any social media platform? Block it. Problem solved.

If people would better learn how to use social media and news aggregators like Google News, it would be a better experience for them. Google News, in particular, is very easy to filter.

[womanofthehills]

34. Depends on who you follow

I get so much more info on Twitter than I do from the NYTs. There is no difference in my Twitter feed - your feed is what you make it.

Twitter has twice as many Democrats as Republicans because it has a high level of college educated people - plus -it’s mostly younger people. So, why do Dems want to leave and turn it over to Republicans esp when young minds are involved. .

[mahina]

25. Did you log in to your google account or not? I chose 'skip it' and this is what I got.

[Roy Rolling]

7. "Turn the Channel"

It’s how we used to deal with programming content we hated.

And worse, some news aggregators feed a user stories based on that user’s cookies and information about the sites they visit.

So if you spend time reading right-wing sites as part of your first amendment knowledge-gathering habits, then Google will feed you similar stories.

Sometimes the culprit in my feeds is me.

[GoneOffShore]

10. So much this.

[mahina]

32. Except that I do not.

[Roy Rolling]

37. I frequently reply to my right-wing Congress Critters

It’s my 1st Amendment right. It also makes me a target of algorithms that feed me more unwanted right-wing sites/idiots in my news feeds.

It’s the price I pay for responding to their idiocy. Stifling that right by making me hate all media without any discernment is the goal of right-wing propagandists.

Don’t fall for it.

[mahina]

26. I've answered this one a few times but here goes

I was not logged in to my google account but chose the option ‘skip it”.

The problem in this case is not me.

[GoodRaisin]

8. My experience with apps has been that most of them are a worse experience

than going to the website. I think they are designed to enhance the merchant’s experience much more than the users.

[mahina]

27. Thank you.

[Crowman2009]

11. I just use DU and individual news network & newspaper apps.

These combined news apps from Google and the like are just garbage.

[luv2fly]

13. Not sure why yours is all Fox

My Google News app is a combo of CNBC, Forbes, CNN, New York Times, Fox, NBC, ESPN, Ars Technica, BBC, Washington Post, some local feeds, etc.

[mahina]

29. I expect when I use my google login to launch it will give me sources such as those.

My reason for concern is not because I find it personally unpalatable but because it peers to be in the intention of the app designers to skew public opinion to the right by a lot.

[Tetrachloride]

14. Fark dot com is

my outside aggregator

[TwilightZone]

15. Unless you have filters enabled, it most certainly isn't all Fox.

As for Fox, you can filter it out. Click on the button with three dots to the right of any Fox News article and select Hide all stories from Fox News.

Problem solved.

[mahina]

20. As explained above, that is available on the page, but not on the ap

It was a wall of Fox noise. At the bottom of the page there was an option upon launching to log into my Google account or skip it and I skipped it. I might try again and see what happens differently when I use my Google login.

My issue is not that I disagree with the far right lean for my own feed but that this is being served as news to others. I think there’s a danger there, an obvious one specially with the fall of other news outlets.

[barbtries]

18. Uninstall

and tell them why. What else can you do?

I clicked on a link to the NYPost and read a story about a woman who drove through BLM protesters. She refused a plea deal and her lawyer says she was in fear for her life and the crowd was violent. The comments were disgusting. I think I will not check out that page again.

[mahina]

22. I uninstalled and looked for a way to give feedback. There was none.

Part of why I wrote the op.

Onward!

[48656c6c6f20]

19. My Google News feed seems fine

No fox, no Newsmaxipad, no Orange Anus Nincompoops News.
It has news from sources I usually access. Weird right?

[mahina]

23. Is yours the ap from the ap store?

I had only used and saved google.com/news before. I used it several times a day without a wall of right wing propaganda.

Not so the ap.

[48656c6c6f20]

33. App or web is showing same content.

BBC, NYT, AL-Jazeera, local Chicago news NBC etc.

I think you need to click the 3 dots next to a news story and select, never show news from Fox. Maybe that's why you see it and I don't.

[Sympthsical]

21. Just checked my Google news app - only 1/30 from the Right

Scrolled far down and only saw one Fox News article - about Jerry Jones and that integration photo.

Google News often adapts to what you read over time. For example, though I made no active choice, it mixes in stories from the Napa Valley Register and SF Chronicle in with my reading, because I often read those places for local things. There's also science and astronomy stuff, PC Gamer, Variety, etc. etc.

And I've never made any adjustments to my feed. Political news seems mainly NYT, WP, CNN, NBC News, some Politico. (Unless we're calling those right-wing sources, and some people do because no one's yet invented the Only What I Want To Hear Times)

So . . . wherever you're clicking is what you're finding more or less.

[mahina]

24. Actually there is an option when opening the ap to log in to my google account or skip it.I skipped

It and shared my experience above. So this is the default setting.

[Sympthsical]

30. I just went to it on my work laptop

I'm not logged into google in any form on that and don't use it to read news.

It's the same. Only one Fox story (about the Idaho murders). A little more variety than when I am logged in (more international content like BBC and Al Jazeera).

I don't know what to tell you. You've set something or you have cookies to places you visit.

[mahina]

31. Good!

I don’t read or watch any of that crap. Maybe once or twice a year and then there an error and nope out instantly. I’m very happy to hear it’s not your experience though. Mahalo.

[Hortensis]

35. Yes, good. And thanks for the alert anyway, including the

point that path of access could change the content offered.

We know this kind of thing is happening through many sources occultly enough that most people are missing it entirely, allowing RW and anti-Democratic deceits to become "normalized" to them through media they trust too much.

[sl8]

28. In the the Android app you can "hide all Fox News"

I just installed the app. Saw 2 stories from Fox News (one about a black hole, one about a password manager) out of the first 40-50 stories. Clicking on the '3 dots' associated with the story gives the option to hide all stories from that source.