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Describing Reddit as “a trusted source for news” is wild. There’s a significant difference in both effort and quality between posting links to news sources vs g

Describing Reddit as “a trusted source for news” is wild. There’s a significant difference in both effort and quality between posting links to news sources vs generating good news content or good news-related discussion. This NYT article is written as if Reddit excels in the latter, which is just crazy to me. Maybe I don’t understand what is meant by “news” here??? Or maybe “trusted news source” was a line lifted directly from Reddit’s IPO press release?

krapp 3y ago
It means we live in a world where people trust Facebook memes and TikTok more than they trust CNN, BBC or any traditional news source, and that trust has no basis in whether said "news" (which need not even be presented as such) is factually accurate or credible. Yes, people trust Reddit as a news source. Many people likely trust Reddit as a primary news source. Even knowing that Reddit isn't trustworthy, simply because they trust everything else less.