The cure to doomscrolling blues? Chicago professor's #SomethingBeautiful hashtag strikes a COVID-19 chord worldwide.
CHICAGO - The bleakness of the COVID-19 pandemic recalls another time when social media sites like Twitter were overflowing with contention - the 2016 presidential election. Back then, Ada Palmer, a University of Chicago associate professor of history, wanted to do something about it, she said.
"I noticed how much Twitter was filling up with pain, hate and blame and criticism," Palmer said.
