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[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't forget that framing things in ways that maximizes emotional response (fear, anger) increases views, which increases ad views, and directly contributes to their bottom line. They have direct incentive to increase anxiety and worry, so everything is couched in scary hypotheticals of varying often undisclosed amounts of credibility.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Use publicly-funded news-sources

dw.com (germany) swissinfo.ch (switzerland) and bbc.com (you already know that one)