That Ghost of Kyiv story was saturating Reddit for several weeks. After being shown to be demonstrably false, that was it for Reddit as a plausible alternative

That Ghost of Kyiv story was saturating Reddit for several weeks. After being shown to be demonstrably false, that was it for Reddit as a plausible alternative news source. They have some nice niche subreddits in a few specific tech areas but I deleted the app after that. The record of their leading Covid subs on banning all discussion of the quite plausible lab leak origin theory was also not good. I'm not sure why 'Google + Reddit' is such a theme, but it's not really much better than 'Google + Twitter'. It would be good to have independent reporters on the ground, but these days, given the manic obsession with controlling the narrative on all sides, it's likely the warring parties would stop fighting each other just long enough to wipe out the independent press, then get back to it.