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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Margaret Sullivan

Welcome to a new ‘gloomcycle’ of news. Here’s how to stop compulsive scrolling

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‘The bad news will keep coming.’ Photograph: ronstik/Alamy

The threat of a world war. Political assassinations. Federal raids on unsuspecting migrants.

There seems to be no end to terrifying news these days. In fact, it comes at us so unceasingly that numbness can set in. Or even depression or melancholy, like a black cloud over every part of our lives.

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