Being informed is great. Everyone should have enough of an idea to be able to make informed decisions about the world and engage with it usefully. But that's

Being informed is great. Everyone should have enough of an idea to be able to make informed decisions about the world and engage with it usefully. But that's not what Doomscrolling does for people. If you already know that X is wrong, reading 500 more instances of how X is going on doesn't add to your knowledge. It doesn't allow you to do anything more about it. It doesn't change anything meaningful. Gather enough knowledge to be useful. Beyond that point it's just going to make you miserable without adding anything to you or the world. (You probably want to gather a little more than that, to be sure you're not missing anything key. But learn to spot when you're just pointlessly bathing in horror.)