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You can weigh your news sources. I intentionally give a little more weight to sources I don’t always agree with but aren’t obviously biased. Things like fake ne

You can weigh your news sources. I intentionally give a little more weight to sources I don’t always agree with but aren’t obviously biased. Things like fake news spreaders, conspiracy theorist, government propaganda machines, or fair topical sites that simply don’t interest me (mostly Celebrity News and Gossip) get black holed. You can find those sliders in your settings. Also they ask you periodically on the desktop homepage. Pro tip: if you hate the mobile or new UI as much as I do, set your user agent to iPhone and go to google.com/nwshp. For whatever reason that magical incantation gives you the classic home page (with the sliders I mentioned in easy access/obvious places). I’ll be really excited if someone knows how to just set that globally in settings. I haven’t found it.

joecool1029 9y ago
>You can weigh your news sources. Neat site that does it for you: https://www.allsides.com/ https://www.allsides.com/
- vesrah 9y ago
  Thank you for this, hadn't run across a site as well presented as this.
kolpa 9y ago
This helps if you love/hate a few sources; not if you want a wide range of non-garbage sources; and especially not if you want the non-garbage stories from one source like CNN or WaPo or FoxNews that has some very good news and a lot of hot-button middlebrow-opinion-masquerading-as-news trash that bubbles to the top of the dungheap.
Bartweiss 9y ago
Thanks for this, I actually didn't know about that. Might be a product I'll like once I put a bit of effort into cleaning it up. I'm worried I'll share kolpa's problem, where sources I use for certain like CNN are also full of absolute dreck I don't want to see. But with a bit of luck I can put together a "news of the day" feed, and I'll just go to those touchier sources directly when I expect a specific piece to be usable.
azinman2 9y ago
Reuters is good for that. Because they resell to other newspapers they're more fact oriented and less opinion.
jacksmith21006 9y ago
I do NOT weight any news sources. It is just what happens or the default. I like all sides personally. But know some do not. Probably most do not. I am naturally a super curious person. I have zero problem with the UI on all devices. A big part is I am also use to it as I read news a lot.

joecool1029 9y ago

>You can weigh your news sources. Neat site that does it for you: https://www.allsides.com/ https://www.allsides.com/

vesrah 9y ago
Thank you for this, hadn't run across a site as well presented as this.

kolpa 9y ago

This helps if you love/hate a few sources; not if you want a wide range of non-garbage sources; and especially not if you want the non-garbage stories from one source like CNN or WaPo or FoxNews that has some very good news and a lot of hot-button middlebrow-opinion-masquerading-as-news trash that bubbles to the top of the dungheap.

Bartweiss 9y ago

Thanks for this, I actually didn't know about that. Might be a product I'll like once I put a bit of effort into cleaning it up. I'm worried I'll share kolpa's problem, where sources I use for certain like CNN are also full of absolute dreck I don't want to see. But with a bit of luck I can put together a "news of the day" feed, and I'll just go to those touchier sources directly when I expect a specific piece to be usable.

azinman2 9y ago

Reuters is good for that. Because they resell to other newspapers they're more fact oriented and less opinion.

jacksmith21006 9y ago

I do NOT weight any news sources. It is just what happens or the default. I like all sides personally. But know some do not. Probably most do not. I am naturally a super curious person. I have zero problem with the UI on all devices. A big part is I am also use to it as I read news a lot.