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Callie Palmer's avatar

I'm loathe to give Meta another avenue into my daily life. The algorithms on both FaceBook and Instagram are just aggravating, and the ads are worse. Post seemed promising but has stalled out for me. I am staying on Twitter until the platform dies simply because I connected with such a wide variety of people and accounts. For news and politics, I'm following journalists I trust on Substack. I'm also just logging into my newspaper accounts and getting more disciplined about reading the news from at least 3 sources, if not more. I found an interesting Substack called Oregon 360 that distills Oregon political news fairly well, and I have been reading the Boston Globe as a much less hot-take bad-take version of the NY Times. I do follow individual NY Times writers. I also love the reading lists that Dan and Lyz Lenz provide. It's work to find multiple perspectives, but it prevents the slide into cynicism and disinformation that is really taking hold in the country.

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Susan Morgan's avatar

Super helpful commentary and analysis, Dan. Thanks for spelling it out so clearly. As a grassroots organizer working to follow your guidance on the importance of individuals helping spread Dem messaging on social platforms, I have focused most of my efforts on Facebook to reach less politically-engaged voters. But I did not know that Facebook's algorithm deprioritizes news articles. I often share an article and add a personal comment. Is a better approach algorithm-wise to use a relevant graphic, such as those created by the WH comms team, with a personal comment on key news? Thanks for helping us all be better messengers for democracy!

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