- fireweed@lemmy.worldEnglish14 hours
Okay but like, if I browse Lemmy every morning and regularly read linked articles, am I getting my news from social media or digital news sites? Same question for the search engines category.
Unrelated, but the idea of getting daily news from a chatbot is baffling.
- Iconoclast@feddit.ukEnglish10 hours
That’s what it means to be getting your news from social media. Your news feed is curated by the platform you’re getting links to those articles from.
13 hoursOkay but like, if I browse Lemmy every morning and regularly read linked articles, am I getting my news from social media or digital news sites?
Both. Lemmy’s news is heavily filtered. I don’t just mean sources; I mean topics altogether. Not to say there’s some pure, magical way to have some fantasy “truly balanced” news transmitted into your brain, but social media compared to, say, a curated RSS feed with a breadth of sources is vastly different and to me would absolutely count as getting your news on social media and (if, as you do, you read the articles) from digital news.
- 13 hours
Your question is probably unrelated to how they asked the question.
To answer your question: search engines or social media would be the discovery mechanism while the source would be your primary.
As a former market researcher, they probably ask, “of the following potential sources of news how often would you say you use them? Once or twice a week, three to five times a week, or six or seven times a week, or not at all?” Although it could just be a yes or no question. But they usually like a little bit of granularity.
