Now you can get the news from many different sources. That's probably a blessing if you are capable of critical thought and want to invest a minimal of effort t

Now you can get the news from many different sources. That's probably a blessing if you are capable of critical thought and want to invest a minimal of effort to do some fact-checking and to get the big picture. If you can't or don't want, I'd say the situation is more grim than before when people had one or a few somewhat neutral established sources of news such as the main newspapers or evening news on television. People get to pick what to believe and enforce their own little bubbles of reality. So it might indeed come down to how educated and critical people are whether this ubiquitous news trend turns out to be an improvement or more harmful. I'd say that right now, in the West – where traditional media on the whole was at least somewhat neutral – it's not looking great. But in less democratic places where the media is state-owned, alternative sources of news might have a positive impact.