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Re: Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News?

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Post by CaptRon »

death916 wrote: post #19
CaptRon wrote: post #17

Facebook has a news tab too. https://www.facebook.com/news/learn-more

I dont think someone complaining about an algorithm influencing their news is going to want to use FB. Although i dont use FB anymore so maybe their news is great.

Yeah FB has a bad brand name but I actually find their news tab to be pretty unbiased. It’s also basically the only way I hear about local news since I don’t watch broadcast tv.

Re: Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News?

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Post by lovelearning »

no-dr-onboard wrote: post #8
assttoasstmgr wrote: post #7

I quit using the totally-not-biased Google News over 5 years ago when nearly all top headlines were consistently sourced from The Huffington Post. This was logged-out by the way. For the uninitiated, it is a glorified opinion blog. Don't take my word for it; to quote Wikipedia, " HuffPost is an American news aggregator and blog... created to provide a liberal alternative to the conservative news websites such as the…

For the person about to reply that you can “hide outlets”: doing so only marginally improves the experience. I’ve personally hidden over 20 outlets with overtly leftist biased writing. My feed is now only obscure local channels that are owned by the same company. Google News refuses to permit socially conservative viewpoints (Fox News doesn’t make that list for me) to make up a user’s personalized feed.

In my country, it does the opposite — full of content from rightwing publications. Perhaps it's not Google injecting its bias but an emergent outcome of the ideology prevalent in society and media in our respective countries.

Re: Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News?

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Post by unraveller »

Have you tried searching "news" into a.. search engine? Once you do you can press the "news" tab. It gives up to the minute news feed from the best web scrapers in the business.

https://search.brave.com/news?q=news

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=news&iar=news&ia=news

https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist

Re: Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News?

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Post by mtberatwork »

no-dr-onboard wrote: post #8
assttoasstmgr wrote: post #7

I quit using the totally-not-biased Google News over 5 years ago when nearly all top headlines were consistently sourced from The Huffington Post. This was logged-out by the way. For the uninitiated, it is a glorified opinion blog. Don't take my word for it; to quote Wikipedia, " HuffPost is an American news aggregator and blog... created to provide a liberal alternative to the conservative news websites such as the…

For the person about to reply that you can “hide outlets”: doing so only marginally improves the experience. I’ve personally hidden over 20 outlets with overtly leftist biased writing. My feed is now only obscure local channels that are owned by the same company. Google News refuses to permit socially conservative viewpoints (Fox News doesn’t make that list for me) to make up a user’s personalized feed.

> Google News refuses to permit socially conservative viewpoints (Fox News doesn’t make that list for me) to make up a user’s personalized feed.

This isn't true. I just looked up a few conservative publications, from the center-right to the heavy-on-conspiracy and they all show up as available news sources.

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