Fewer Australians are following the headlines – but there’s a fine line between switching off and staying connected to the world
It was during the second Sydney lockdown, in 2021, that Cass decided to unplug.
“I was finding myself really anxious about the state of the world. And when I looked at the news, I was like, there’s actually nothing I can do as an individual to change anything that’s going on,” she tells Guardian Australia. “I just thought, I need to step away from the information overload of all the negativity. It’s too much.”
