Clicking Hacker News is seeking news the same way as clicking CNN. Signing up for emails (presumably) isn’t organically hearing about it via billboards or volu

Clicking Hacker News is seeking news the same way as clicking CNN. Signing up for emails (presumably) isn’t organically hearing about it via billboards or voluntary conversation; it’s willfully agreeing to have news appear in your inbox. How does this differ from the person who visits Fox News or CNN and follows a group on Facebook to see their posts appear in their news feed?