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Abstract : Post-modern society witnessed enormous changes in technology and innovations. As a result, the quick access to relevant information became a nightmare. The digital media contents became abundant and it turned impossible to retrieve useful information when needed. News media also faced such an information overflow. Accurate ‘news’ became hardly accessible. The internet world delivered manipulated and fake news, thus the integrity of the media is lost. The credibility of the digital media is questioned. This study tries to figure out causes of information overload and how it affected the digital media news content. A survey is conducted to know, how young generation is affected ‘Information overload’ and tries to find out how they cop-up with the problem. This study also tries to propose empirical answers for this mess. Technology itself has solutions for this problem. Proper use of technological inventions and tools will help us to cop up with ‘Information’ and ‘News’ overload.