Honestly, it works pretty great. I find mainstream social media to be a cesspool of irrelevant junk, so I don't use them. Technically, I have Facebook and Instagram accounts, but I rarely browse anything on either of those apps.
When it's not enough I switch to text browsing via rss and gopher/gemini.
Wikipedia Current Events is very important to make sure that I'm not cutting myself completely off from the world, and after years of using it it's good enough when complemented with the local news from the people around me.
Another thing that would be great is to use that to identify the news that really matter and mute the rest.
I could imagine a prompt containing something like "As a person that likes A, B, C, D, and F, does the following has a potential to be interesting to me: ..."
The Wikipedia current events portal looks like a fantastic replacement for BBC World News though: slightly more in-depth content than just headlines. I'll give it a try.