Re:Negativity Drives Online News Consumption
by SAI_Peregrinus on Friday March 17, 2023 @08:24PM
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Also there are often "feel good" stories that are really quite negative in disguise. "Little Timmy started a GoFundMe to pay off his school lunch debt, and all his friends donated!" and other dystopian "seems nice but is actually horrifying" content.
Don't get me wrong, I think efforts like Little Timmy's are great and in the scope of their lives is probably significant. It doesn't however hit the level of magnitude/significance and scope of their negative counter parts. It's only in local news sources that I tend to see a better balance of things that truly effect, are relevant to me, and aren't full of doom and gloom.