Some people need to pay more attention, and some people need a break.
If you're in the latter group, consider getting out of the 'news' pipelines for a few months.
Use no social media where 'news' appears. For example, if you use Reddit, don't look at the front page -- which is mostly outrage porn and shameless buzz marketing -- only select, bookmarked subreddits on other topics.
If outrage is being shoveled into your feed anywhere, disconnect the feed.
After a few months' break, to try to have sustainable civic/community engagement, carefully introduce an outlet that's trying to do real journalism in contrast to all the demagoguery. The tone can be concerned, but it must be objective rather than persuasive/manipulative, and maybe this combination of awareness and composure is reassuring. Maybe this is the NYT or WaPo still(?), or maybe you find something that works better for you. Check it maybe once a week or month. If you find a periodic summary that can update you in an hour, like a Week In Review, great.
Once you're not overwhelmed, and don't implicitly feel like it's all on you to save the world, then you can do some good. Maybe it's "think globally, act locally" in some niche, or maybe something else.
Then you can also carefully increase your news exposure, with a newfound awareness to when you're just getting worked over by an engagement/manipulation algorithm.
At the same time as you take a break, try not to overdo the distancing and accidentally become one of the people who need to pay more attention and care about things outside themselves.