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Singapore pays its citizens to read and combat doomscrolling, ‘brain rot’

Singapore has launched a five-year national campaign that pays citizens to read, in a bid to combat shrinking attention spans and digital distraction. The initiative, called “ReadSG,” was launched this month by the National Library Board to encourage deep reading among its citizens. Under the program, participants must log at least 15 minutes of daily reading on CrowdTaskSG, a government-run web portal…

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