Well today it’s maybe a bad idea (I havent really digged through it all recently but it seems to be a not good idea), but back in the day Xiaomi was the beast phone for cheap, with all the bells & whistles like swappable battery, sd card, good CPU & RAM etc. for a fraction of the cost of an iPhone or Samsung.
So well, time changes!
You are right, and it is usually just a (very moral eh) tactic to get your clicks. You aRe okAy with MurDer and Rape? If noT click “click bait article”.
I have decided to follow seriously only one topic (the russian ukraine aggression, so I gonon the lookout myself for information), some others more on a surface level like LGBT+ where you don’t need to know a lot about the topic to understand what’s happening (it’s quite straightforward, terfs are bad, let people be who they are ffs).
But again, if you don’t engage in most of the “news” you are not a bad person, you just prive shady companies advertising money.