So, you are going to create a bubble world for yourself where you see/read/hear nothing inconvenient to your views.
That is how people become brainwashed.
Try moderation of some sites instead. You do not need to go daily and read every story.
“That is how people become brainwashed.”
In a sense but not from the perspective of how you used the term. There is absolutely no guilt in having the strength to take a break and wash one’s brain of the mass chaos and insanity in the world to get your head right. To be able to muster this strength over self is a virtue not a fallacy.
Makes me wonder if your attempt to shame him and talk him out of it is because you do not have the personal strength and determination to control your own addictions? An attempt to make sure no one else does because you can’t? We might win this thing if more had the strength to boycott some of these sources of propaganda.
FR offers you a menu of threads to read. You consciously choose what might interest you.
By contrast Twitter has an algorithm that feeds you items; and the algorithm studies what you read or react to. Sometimes it reinforces what you seem to like, other times it gives you the opposite.
You can “train” the alogorithm to some degree, but there’s a learning curve to it and there’s no instructions that I know about. FR is easier because there is no algorithm involved.
Twitter can be a good news aggregator if you figure out how to train it. Both sites have their good points and their weaknesses.