How do you suppose an intelligent 16 y/o Australian should get their news? Twitter / Bluesky / Mastodon / Youtube / Reddit are this generation's Guardian / NYT / Der Spiegel / Le Monde / Reuters.
We can bag those apps, but the fact they're 90% trash [1] doesn't mean they can't be used intelligently basically 100% of the time. Used properly, they're superior sources of information to papers/TV.