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Tenderizer@aussie.zone 3 weeks agoThey don’t want to be outraged, they just feel anything that outrages them is important whereas anything that doesn’t does not. So any news that’s positive about Labor is unimportant to the audience and suppressed by the media, even if it’s true.
sola@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Interesting distinction. Do you have any further reading on this? I am not on any social media, thus I have no real world experience with doom/outrage scrolling, so I cannot make judgement about the plausibility of the statement.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
No further reading. Naturally though people find threats more important to know about than a news article saying “everything is fine, better than you think even, you don’t need to worry”.
Though doom scrolling does help keep people’s minds numb by flipping them between cat videos and RFK Junior endlessly. This is why doom scrolling is so good at making time disappear and some people want that.