The Insomniac's Feed

How modern media weaponizes anxiety to keep us scrolling

To put it bluntly, I’m a shit sleeper.

I’ve been an insomniac for over a decade, which is unsurprising given my family history of no one sleeping. As a teenager, I’d perfected the art of noiselessly removing the screen from my window so I could sit on our roof late at night, try to shimmy down the drain pipe when I was grounded. I thought that perhaps at…