Top 5 News Sources

I don't really watch much television, so the news I do see relies on what I see daily on the internet. I am on Reddit for at least 2 or 3 hours every day and just sort by "All." This means that the content I am seeing is the most upvoted content on the entire site. Reddit's population is mostly liberal/democratic leaning so I have to keep that in mind when looking at content and comments on that content.

Twitter

I have set a couple of twitter accounts to send me notifications whenever they post a new tweet. This is mostly video game or other forms of entertainment related. Like Reddit, Twitter is a mixing pot of all different kinds of people, however it seems to mainly skew left. This is also dependent on who you follow. The most popular tweets are left-leaning.

Youtube

Like Twitter, I have set multiple youtube channels to send me notifications whenever they post a new video. This ranges from all sorts of different news genres from entertainment to politics. This site has formulas that caters to you personally. If it detects that you are right-leaning, you will see right-leaning videos. Same with left-leaning videos.

Forbes

This is my first "real" news source. I feel like this news source is the one I visit the most when clicking on a link found somewhere else, whether that be Reddit, Twitter, Youtube, or all of the above. I like this new source because it does a good job of trying to have 0 bias. However, it does lean left a small bit sometimes.

Fox News

I use fox news to see a right-leaning viewpoint since most of the other sources I list are left-leaning. I personally form my own opinion on most political issues so it is hard to tell if I'm "right" or "left." Some of my opinions veer far-left and others far-right. When I discover a new piece of information, I try to find multiple different sites to try to see what really happened in that event. I strongly recommend everyone to use more than one news source before making their own opinion.

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