Gboard and feed articles issues

I dont get why Gboard is built into this app when its also available as a standalone app, thats just confusing. Anyway Gboard is flakey... every five seconds or so it blinks and resets itself and sometimes it dumps me back to the Apple keyboard, making it difficult to use for long. Other problem is that the feed is always showing me news articles from random websites and I cant figure out how to turn all of them off without also turning off the entire feed. In feed settings I tried accessing "Apps & Websites" but it doesnt work.

Sashazur about Google, v36.0