I know exactly what you mean
Facebook is so mainstream in Europe that many companies have their customer support on FB and can serve you easier and faster.
For these reasons and to keep in touch with my friends I kept messenger,

Now regarding news... at first I had my insecurities too but I understood that FB is not some independent news authority and that mostly news is just republished

so I made a bookmarked list in my browser of sites that had blogs on FB and visit them directly

but as long as you feel FB serves you and you are not the one serving it... it's all good

it just didn't work for me... in the end I felt that using this platform had more negative effects than positive effects

That is why, in principle, I am not optimistic about what awaits us in the future.

I wish I could disagree on that, but i just can't