Honest question: what are "social listening tools"?

I personally don't, but I run a tool called ForumScout and you could literally just spin up a listener for whatever news-related keyword you want to track and it will add all mentions to your feed.

And you can add an 'AI filter' where you can explain to the AI what posts you want/don't want and it will check every single post and make sure it matches your criteria before adding it.

So for example if you want to track mentions of "Trump", your AI filter could say "Only show me posts discussing his economic policies. Avoid any mention of his family or personal life", and that's what you'd get.

I guess it would be useful if you want some very specific stuff, but plain old news aggregators work just fine for me :)