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Comment by declan_roberts | Hacker News Reader

How do you measure viable? Twitter is still the best place to hear and read about breaking news.

Nah, it's been altered to point to his biases. Just like he has with Grok. He represents the opposite of free speech

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok...

He didn't say it was good, he said it was the best. To counter his point, you would need to provide a sufficient alternative. I'm pointing this out because if there is one, I'd be interested in it as well. For now, I'm just browsing HN, Reuters, and AP every morning.

Reddit is definitely worse.

It’s best only if you ignore the signal to noise ratio.

I might read “breaking news” on Twitter first, but simultaneously I’ll see the other 10 variants of reality about said “breaking news” with no way to discern between them quickly.

By the time you’ve fact checked anything, the regular news has already reported it

Gotta also access the case of whether you need this kind of “breaking news” with incomplete, speculative and often wrong facts.

Yes this is a big problem. You have to very carefully curate your list of people you trust.

>Twitter is still the best place to hear and read about breaking news.

only if you don't care if what you're reading is true or not. I never really understood twitter or sites with user generated content as a medium for news. I'm just as well off waiting until some news room checks it and reports it in a format that doesn't have me wasting time scrolling through a sea of posts.

The only thing I need in the next five minutes is an earthquake or flood warning and for that I thankfully live in a place that has a public alert system.

Well, some breaking news at least. The kind that's flattering to a certain political mindset.

Morally viable. One that conforms to personal and social norms and values.

For example, if one values free speech or resistance against reactionaries, then a platform which censors and promotes reactionaries would not be morally viable.

Many people, think they hold a different set of values than they do. When push comes to shove, following rules, stability, and security trump liberty, freedom, and equality. In reality some folks are much easier than even that - a quick bite of hot news releases a squirt of dopamine more enticing than all of these and it's much easier to justify that it didn't really compromise their moral behavior.

are you stuck in 2021? hang on let me give you a hand, join us here in the present! things are different now, friend!

citation needed on that "best" designation. It's certainly A place to hear about breaking news. Maybe the best place to hear about elon or tesla news fast. but anything else? Been keeping up with the gamedev industry just fine on my twitter-less socials.

If you don't mind getting completely fake news. Community Notes used to be good at addressing this, but Elon publicly gimped it recently to kowtow to the right-wing crowd upset about losing their monetization.

No news is better than Twitter news.

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