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flintlock-media
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I've vaguely heard that there are big worker protests/strikes happening in France via mentions of it on twitter, and was able to find more info by googling. It's low-key being suppressed in the UK mainstream media. We really don't have anything even close to a free press (did we ever? I genuinely don't know ๐Ÿค”) and I just don't trust sources like the BBC since they are just a government propaganda machine.

I used to get important news from Twitter (don't laugh) because people I followed would talk about important shit happening. I found out about the 2021 riots in Northern Ireland on twitter like a full week before the BBC or any other news sources bothered to cover it in mainland UK. I learned about Londoners blocking immigration vans via Twitter, and you can see if you follow that link to the guardian website that they basically cribbed the story from those same Twitter sources.

Now that twitter is completely unusable (unless I feel like reading some rage-bait doom-scroll fuel) I don't really know where to get my news from. My mental health is generally a lot better if I'm completely unplugged, but I don't feel like being completely unplugged is feasible or responsible.

So anyway TLDR how do people find things out these days?


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in reply to @flintlock-media's post:

It seems that so far both Tumblr and Mastodon have taken on this aspect of Twitter.

Cohost has largely has not and seems to why away from it, and hasn't changed much in the past few months so I suspect that's the way it's going to stay for now.