[venndeezl]

Media in the US is obsessed with fear mongering:

https://flowingdata.com/2025/10/08/mortality-in-the-news-vs-...

If they reported on heart disease people might get healthy. But it's instinctual understanding that people dying all over just improves journalists odds in our society. Keep them anxious with crime stats!

Such an unserious joke of a society.

[api]

This is purely economic. Fear mongering gets clicks, which boosts ad revenues.

I've read statistics to the effect that bad news (fear or rage bait) often gets as much as 10,000X the engagement vs good news.

[expedition32]

So do you dispute that this is happening? And its all over my country too.

Expecting tech bros to take responsibility for what they have unleashed is asking too much I suppose.