In mid-2022, surveys reported that interest in the news between 2022 and 2021 fell from 55% to 43%. “Engagement with news content across all platforms declined significantly in the first half of 2022,” noted Neil Rothschild and Sara Fischer of Axios.
One reason given was that viewers were exhausted by a constant stream of bad news. In other cases, it was just simple exhaustion and loss of interest that ultimately led to disengagement.
