Researchers want the public to test themselves: https://yourmist.streamlit.app/. Selecting true or false against 20 headlines gives the user a set of scores and a “resilience” ranking that compares them to the wider U.S. population. It takes less than two minutes to complete.
The paper
Edit: the article might be misrepresenting the study and its findings, so it’s worth checking the paper itself. (See @realChem 's comment in the thread).
I imagine a main goal is to create a sensation of being overwhelmed, which in turn can easily make one apathetic, cynical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood