No, I think this is quite the place to talk about it as it is the topic directly linked in your news push, if you disagree please, feel free to report my posts. Ultimately, it is not "your" community, it is an open piece of kit for anyone to use, most of whom aren't even aware of the news feature. While I appreciate the work put into it, and see the value of the news to give product information, I did not buy anything you made, so I do not expect your agenda, whatever it is, to be pushed onto me.
You are neglecting to address that, pushing this onto people without their consent, people who are trying to avoid the topic because it is stressful, and sometimes anxiety/panic attack inducing to them, is just plain irresponsible. I also never said you abused, I said you misused, and it's also ironic you ask people to be less rude, after such a rude reply to my comment.
You claim this is for the benefit of others, so have some decency and consideration for others, don't push this through the collar scripts. Which are used by hundreds of other creators in their products, going to likely hundreds if not thousands of SL users, who will will not be aware there even exists a news feature to disable, least of all expect it to be sending them updates on a global pandemic they are coming online to avoid.
I'm not going to continue this, but I am asking you to just have some consideration for others, which apparently, seems a lot to be asking.