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Writer quits bad news for 48 hours and reports what happened

Original: 🔁 From our "Digital Crossroads" collection: I stopped reading bad news for 48 hours. Here’s what happened - https://www.

A Positive.News lifestyle piece describes an experiment in which the author stopped reading bad news for 48 hours and wrote about the effects. The story is being shared as part of a "Digital Crossroads" collection of items on how people relate to digital media. It taps into ongoing debate about news avoidance, doomscrolling and whether constant exposure to negative headlines harms wellbeing.

Why now: Ongoing public interest in news avoidance and the mental health effects of doomscrolling.

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• 🔁 From our "Digital Crossroads" collection: I stopped reading bad news for 48 hours. Here’s what happened - https://www. positive.news/lifestyle/i-stop ped-reading-bad-news-for-48-hours-heres-what-happened/?ref=feedle.world --- See other stories like this one here: https://… · feedle · 1

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