Empathy might be hard. It just depends on the Person, mental state, perspective, etc.

If empathy would be easy, then why did Trump win?

Doesn’t Russia want to see Nato entirely gone?

May I remind you that most Windows users will never read an Article and just enter some social media to consume the entire day?

This is just another Person creating another form of Media of the news. Maybe it will confince people to change their lifes and thinking. Maybe they will start reading articles, etc. etc.