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As Election Day came and went and we still didn’t know who was going to win the presidency, many of us ended up glued to our devices last week— moreso than usual— seeking the latest news. Whether it was the obsession with MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki and his map wizardry or the constant updates about how many votes were left to count in Pennsylvania or Georgia, Americans likely spent more time doomscrolling through their Twitter feeds and other apps than they normally do.
Depending on who your preferred candidate was, by Saturday morning —when the networks called the election for Joe *****— your doomscrolling may have turned into gleefreshing— the newly-coined term for manually updating your feed to read good news.
On Sunday, we started…