Digital Smarts - Doomscrolling
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The experience of sinking into emotional quicksand while bingeing on doom-and-gloom news is so common that there’s now Internet lingo for it: “doomscrolling.” While this article entitled You’re Doomscrolling Again. Here’s How to Snap Out of It is from this past summer, it probably is a good reference as we stare down all the misinformation proliferating on the Internet as we are about to have a change in political leadership, amidst the continuation of the Covid pandemic.