Hoping to ensure I’m subjected to far less cruel bullshit media and news in 2026, I’ve been adjusting my feeds on the few social platforms I bother to use. I believe I’m going to reduce the number of platforms again in 2026. I’m adding more positive news sources to enrich my feeds. It’s a tough hunt, let me tell you! I find it frustratingly and depressingly hard to balance my desire to remain part of an informed electorate and not wanting to be blasted in the frontal cortex by a fire hose of AI slop, influencer-based misinformation, and intentional lies and propaganda that the dead internet is producing.
I don’t know what the balance looks like. Some have suggested those ‘balanced’ news sights that categorize news and sources on a political spectrum, but I feel that the two I know of are still focused entirely on the awful shit going, just pointing out that sources are spinning it. Great, I can counter a bit of the gaslighting, but it still just displays the shit show.
