cost/benefit change

E-communications have preferentially increased the manipulative impact of, and funding for, non-local appeals to fear, anger & xenophobia.

There is multiplicative (i.e. runaway dI/dt ∝ I) potential here, particularly when such non-local appeals seize on this opportunity to warn you vociferously about other non-local appeals, as when the lawless rail against evil, bigots against totalitarians, etc.

Constructive local action (e.g. washing dishes, or developing locally-relevant resources not accessible to the open web) might be one way to minimize the number of your clock cycles wasted on long-distance cartoonification.

What are some other tools that might help us mitigate this corollary effect of rapid information flow?