I wonder how much of young people choosing to avoid the news stems from the burnout of the doom scroll. This is something I've been seeing reflected a bit more in media. Bo Burnham's whole special "Inside" feels sort of related to this desire to not be connected to every news story. Paramore's song "The News" touches on this as well, talking about how there's a war on the other side of the planet "but I worry and I give money and I feel useless behind this computer" with the chorus being "turn off turn off the news." I think young people, just by virtue of being in social spaces where people share their experiences with real-time news events, are simply at their wits end. It's hard to navigate hearing what is important and protecting oneself from all the spiraling emotions that can be associated with it.