trim the noise and keep the news with this recently renamed X accountDo you want to trim the noise and keep the news? At first glance, brand new news site Trimfeed and its emerging social media presence would appear to be right up your alley. On X (formerly Twitter), the nascent media organization has already purchased a gold verification checkmark for their official @trimfeed account. (Cost: either $200 or $1000 per month, depending on whether the account has the “Basic” or “Full” plan.) There are, however, a few problems — although all of the content on the @trimfeed X account and the associated tr.im website is from April 2024, the account itself dates back to June 2010, and appears to have been renamed and hijacked. Additionally, the Trimfeed website bears some marked similarities to a now-defunct dubious news site named BNN, which featured a large quantity of plagiarized content and stopped publishing at the beginning of April 2024 after being downranked in Google search results.for some reason, “Key Takeaways” always contains five bullet pointsAlthough the “About” page on the Trimfeed website claims that Trimfeed has a “global team of seasoned journalists [that] brings you stories directly from the heart of the action”, the site at present does not appear to contain any original reporting. Instead, all of the currently available articles are simply summarized and reworded versions of stories published by other outlets, modified to fit Trimfeed’s template which includes a “Why this matters” and “Key Takeaways” section in each…The curious case of Trimfeed News