I've noticed for a while now that all of the social media outlets where I used to be able to reliably get news have slowly stopped keeping up with the real news and instead only follows trending topics, it's mostly infotainment.
My last refuge was the news podcast feature built into Android OS, you could select from a lot of different news sources and hear their morning headline readings to get a good sense of what is going on in the world. A couple of days ago that feature stopped working and the only thing Google News will give me is an AI readout of the days headlines, it's not the same and it caught me off guard. In hindsight I shouldn't be surprised, google does love to kill a good product.
I'm really not sure what it will take to set up a similar experience, but ironically I'm tempted to use AI to re-write the podcast news feed the old fashioned way.