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Comment by dadjoker | Hacker News Reader

I have yet to figure out why anyone would rely on Facebook as a news source

Many people use it as some sort of RSS reader. You follow the pages of the newspapers that you want to read and you get the news on your news feed.

Glad to hear I'm not alone!

I only follow reputable media in Facebook. My feed consists of news articles from as much non-paywalled newspaper as I can get. I'm from Mexico so most of the media here is not behind a paywall.

I unfollowed all my facebook friends because I don't want to see their shit.

Yeah Facebook can still learn things about me and manipulate me. But I find it easier and faster to use Facebook as an accumulation of my favorite media than going to each website.

I also use Twitter for the same thing plus following programming personalities (famous and non-famous) and some friends.

It is more a case of people who only use facebook and not any other sites.

All this means is that they will no longer see links to external news articles when they are reading facebook. So effectively they won't see any news.

I'm curious how many people consciously have something they "rely" on for news. Personally, I find news generally finds its way to me, and I don't deliberately seek it out (usually). Instead I have these bad habits I've developed, like where I open up HN without even thinking when my brain is seeking stimulation or looking for a distraction from something hard.

Even your local news? Local news are more important than any national news.

Ya, I mean usually I find out about local news from talking to people, or sometimes from overhearing other people talk about something. I don't have a good source of local news right now other than that, but I agree with you, it is more directly relevant to my life. What's your source for local news?

I do for extremely local news because there's no where better than it these days. All the local newspapers were bought and shut down, so first hand accounts and discussion is all that's left.

I do, because news sites are no longer usable with their paywalls, GDPR popups, newsletter popups, and even more popups complaining that you disabled cookies when it's literally my default setting for all sites.

Ya, it is so weird that people get their news from Facebook. I get all my news from reddit instead.

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