but I am not sure about the curation being purely user based.
So you don’t trust random users, but you do trust… random admins or moderators?
Your logic here is not sound. They’re just as likely to be biased or leave out important information.
If you want it like that, I think you should follow @Uncle’s suggestion and just use news sites like Associated Press or Reuters.
Seriously, why would the curation be any better when done by an admin or mod versus average users?
Oh look at that, I’m an average Lemmy user, and I just made a news community and now I’m the moderator of it. See what I’m saying here? If you don’t trust users, well… users are where mods come from, so I don’t know what to tell you.