The plan seemed simple enough: The City of Minneapolis was going to enlist the help of several key community influencers with the hopes of handling misinformation on social media and easing possible tensions as the murder trial that sparked a racial reckoning worldwide gets underway. And for that, the city would pay them each $2,000.
With jury selection set to start Monday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer facing murder charges in the death of George Floyd, city officials, nervous about the spread of misinformation that could lead to uprisings and violence, hoped to employ the power and reach of social media as a best defense.
George Floyd: Minneapolis wanted to pay social media influencers to fight misinformation around Derek Chauvin trial
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Alondra Llompart needed a break from everything happening on social media.
Llompart, from Bayamón, Puerto Rico, decided she would delete all her social media apps for a week after feeling headaches and anxiety due to what she calls excessive doomscrolling. She removed Instagram, Twitter and YouTube from her phone. If I find myself feeling sad and self-deprecating, I know it s because I m consuming too much social media, said the 23-year-old. I especially feel this on Instagram, where I find myself comparing myself to others, and on Twitter, where the doomscrolling comes in.
Doomscrolling, or doomsurfing, refers to the tendency to continue to scroll through bad news despite the content being saddening, disheartening or depressing. As people have flocked to social media for COVID-19 health information, updates on the presidential transition and entertainment, some people might feel burned out due to excessive social media use. The riots on Capitol Hill Jan. 6 had p