Where? There are, sometimes, 1-2 ads in the "Promotions" tab, which i really wouldn't call "a shit ton".
Breitbart and Epoch Times shouldn't come up anywhere close to anything with "News" in the name.
I've yet to ever see an add in any of my Gmail accounts.
I don't think any of the major news networks have much credibility any more, it's just that some may seem better than others simply because they align more with your particular personal opinions and biases.
The only approach I've found is to consume a few news sources through the lens of their known biases in an attempt to get something resembling the whole picture.
I'm not the OP, however, being the service called News, one would expect it to contain actual news and not 100% biased opinion.
Huh? Looking in my gmail inbox, I see virtually nothing but ads.
- Google News includes stories from a source that the author doesn't want anyone else to be able to see. (If they just didn't want to see those stories themselves, then there's an easily accessible "hide sources from XXX" entry in the context menu).
- Generic complaints about shopping searches returning links to Amazon, or pages having referral links to Amazon. Might be true, but the case would be a lot stronger with some example queries that show this failure, with suggestions on the good content that is not being surfaced. Without the latter, how can we know that the results weren't actually the best that existed.
- An insinuation that Gmail and Drive are "treating the user as the product". (Seems basically untrue; Gmail has incredibly few ads, Drive I think none, and data from neither is used for ad targeting.)
- The author couldn't get individual customer support for "being the target of a really weird scheme". No details on the scheme. The person they didn't know whose contact details they got from somewhere wasn't enthusiastic about helping them either.