Go Your Own Way

It dawned on me that I’d mostly stopped visiting websites directly and instead had been following the recommendations in my feeds to wherever they might lead me. My reading was no longer deliberate but curated by external forces that may or may not have aligned with my interests. I’d ceded control of my most valuable currency: my attention.

--Leaving Social Media Taught Me How Broken The News Cycle Is | FiveThirtyEight

Again, another argument for leaving social media, and returning to striking out on one's own. You can go to a news source's website, and find stories on your own, without someone, or something, else determining what you see.