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When staying informed becomes psychological torture

I get push notifications about political crises every few minutes and I cannot turn them off without missing actual emergencies but they are making me crazy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attention economy has weaponized civic duty, turning responsible citizenship into a source of mental health problems.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Technology and democracy?”

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