“Phone users have hitherto only read about the world on various sites; the point, however, is to change it.”
The state of the world is horrifying, it should horrify us, and the solution isn’t to ignore that knowledge, but to apply it. Find organisations working to improve the world and do your part. Don’t doomscroll, immobilising ourselves isn’t helpful either, so sure “put the phone down” in that sense, but (preaching to the choir here) feeling bad about the state of the world is not a problem, it’s a healthy sign.