You're probably experiencing issues with API nodes. Both Keychain and Peakd have settings where that can be changed. I'm noticing a few hiccups as well but nothing I can't handle.

At the end of the day, regardless of where this news stuff is coming from, it's all the same to me. I don't see that imaginary line that somehow makes Alex Jones different from CNN talking head, even little guy Youtuber is the same in my eyes. It's not reporting events. It's steering minds and swaying opinions, but not even that anymore. It's just telling their market what they want to hear and how they want to hear it, so they keep coming back for more. Every single last one of them, including Joe Nobody blogger that latches on to whatever's fashionable in the news. It's all the same. I'm not talking about who's funding who. When you boil that down guess what? You discover the people are doing this to themselves. The people fund it. Society. As a whole. The entire operation. But you can't write that story because it doesn't appeal to anyone. Nobody wants to take the blame. That's why the market of blaming others is massive.