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The News Detox Movement™
Clean information • Clear minds
It’s not “just the news” • It’s a diet

Your news feed isn’t neutral.
It’s a behavioral product.

The News Detox Movement™ exists to help people recognize, resist, and recover from poisoned, behaviorally-curated news—feeds engineered to maximize outrage and addiction, not understanding.

  • ●We don’t tell you which side to trust. We show you how the system pulls every side apart.
  • ●We treat bad information like bad food: it makes you sick, numb, and easier to control.
  • ●We believe a healthy democracy requires a healthy information diet.
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Not left. Not right. Human.

The problem isn’t “the media.” It’s the business model.

When news is optimized for engagement instead of understanding, the most extreme, addictive, divisive stories win.

We talk about “fake news” as if the problem were a few bad stories. The reality is worse: most of what you see is technically true—but selected and framed to keep you hooked, angry, and coming back.

  • Algorithms learn your fears and biases, then feed you more of whatever keeps you engaged.
  • Headline after headline convinces you the other side is insane, dangerous, or inhuman.
  • Nuance and context lose the ratings battle to rage and tribal identity.
  • “News” quietly becomes a mood drug—and withdrawal makes you feel uninformed and anxious.

Over time, you’re not just informed. You’re conditioned.

News used to be a public service. Now, it’s often an attention business.

When attention becomes the product, whoever can best hijack your nervous system wins— regardless of whether they’re helping you think clearly or poisoning your ability to live with neighbors who see the world differently.

The News Detox Movement™ doesn’t tell you what to believe. It helps you see how your beliefs are being targeted, tested, and exploited.

How poisoned news feeds are engineered

It feels organic and inevitable. It’s not. There’s a pattern.

1 • Capture
Measure every reaction

Platforms track what you click, hover over, rewatch, comment on, and share. They learn what raises your pulse and what makes you scroll past.

The goal isn’t truth. It’s time-on-platform.
2 • Profile
Build your emotional fingerprint

Over time, systems build a model of you: what stories you trust, which villains you prefer, what type of outrage keeps you most engaged.

You’re not the customer. You’re the training data.
3 • Dose
Deliver the most addictive mix

Your feed becomes a personalized cocktail of fear, anger, and validation. Middle-ground stories vanish.

If calm, balanced reporting makes you scroll away, it gets quietly removed from your diet.
4 • Monetize
Sell access to your reactions

Once the system knows what moves you, it sells that insight to advertisers, campaigns, and anyone willing to pay for influence.

Your attention, your vote, your stress level—packaged and priced.

What you can do right now

You can’t fix the entire ecosystem alone. But you can fix your own information diet—and help others do the same.

Step one: name the problem out loud. If your news makes you constantly angry, hopeless, or addicted, that’s not “being informed.” That’s a signal your feed is poisoned.
Take the News Detox Pledge
1 • Audit
See what you’re really consuming

Track your news intake for a week. How many hours? From which sources? How do you feel after a session?

Detox starts with awareness, not guilt.
2 • Reduce
Cut the most toxic streams

Unfollow, mute, or limit sources that leave you enraged but not informed. Replace them with slower, deeper reporting.

Fewer sources, more depth. Less doom-scroll, more deliberate reading.
3 • Diversify
Break out of your bubble

Add at least one credible source that doesn’t fully match your existing worldview. Look for explanation, not affirmation.

The goal isn’t to agree—it’s to understand how others see the same facts.
4 • Protect
Limit algorithmic control

Turn off “autoplay,” disable some recommendations, and use tools that give you more manual control over what you see.

You choose your inputs—before they quietly choose you.

The playbook behind the movement

The News Detox Movement™ is grounded in a forthcoming non-fiction book and a broader Human Perimeter Press™ catalog.

Core text (in development): The Illusion of Truth: News in the Age of Behavioral Curation.

Written for ordinary readers, it explains:

  • How engagement-based news feeds quietly rewire your emotions and beliefs.
  • Why both “sides” feel certain the other side has gone insane—and how the same machinery is working on all of us.
  • How to build a personal News Detox plan without cutting yourself off from the world.

The book is published under Human Perimeter Press™, alongside:

  • The Two Fronts of the Digital War — a concise field guide to the Surveillance Economy.
  • The Citizen Defense Movement — a deeper roadmap for reclaiming autonomy.
  • The Glitch (fiction) — a near-future thriller about what happens when we don’t change course.
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