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From Moscow to Gaza: smartphones mean there’s no escaping the horror
Now that everyone has a smartphone and access to the internet, we're being bombarded with the most terrible footage the world has to offer.
From the attack near Moscow, to recent violent unrest in Haiti which saw an unfounded narrative spun up and spread by mostly right-wing users on social media, including the owner of X Elon Musk, that roving gangs of Haitians are engaging in cannibalism, eating the people they have killed. Endless streams of negative information, trauma-inducing visuals and politically-charged narratives based on them eventually exhaust the user, whether they feel compassion for Palestinians or are on the side of Moscow in their war against Ukraine. “As other pressing conflicts continue to unfold in the world and ordinary citizens are confronted by their own problems, attention is bound to be diverted elsewhere,” writes the Magdalene Karalis of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.
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