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[–] 15727084? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
You need news. You just don't need "The News"
Curated news is necessary. Just like your brain cuts out most of the information your senses make available, a dependable curated source of news that can filter irrelevancy and enhance and explain in depth events as the develop is critical to having an educated populace.
We just don't have such a dependable news curator anymore so we're all stuck in little self-reinforcing filter-bubbles that are maximized to sell us ads and not to inform us so we become ever more tribalistic and easy to manipulate.