There's still plenty of garbage on Google News and especially YouTube since the democratisation of the partner network and nearly all the news organisations being present. But I've seen worse and its coming in the form of 'actual news'.
In the UK, we have a tax-funded broadcaster with a royal charter called 'BBC News' and a look at its online content is essentially a new level of woketopia. There's mountains and valleys of clickbait littered everywhere and its impartiality stance is evidently non-existent.
If I had to choose, I would rather pay for YouTube Premium or Netflix with all their junk than look at the hot garbage that is paid with a TV License to the BBC.