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the idea of social media as source of news needs to die
Whats there to replace it? Systematically biased and profit oriented private news sites? State controlled news? Even nonprofit news is gonna be biased. Having some sort of public feedback loop built into any news source is honestly great and always preferable over private "fact checking". I hate these silicon valley companies just as much, but i prefer social media + community notes over legacy news media with no public feedback mechanism.
public feedback + engagement algorithms != public feedback
Also, plenty of news outlets have comments and voting. How do we know they're real people and not bots? Same way we know with social media: we don't. There's something to be said for actual journalists and editors who have to build and maintain their reputation.