The Outrage Economy: How Platforms Turned Moral Anger Into a Business Model

Outrage economy

Table of Contents Search “social media outrage business model” and you will mostly find two answers: a moral one, which says platforms are addicted to anger and should be ashamed of themselves, and a technical one, which says engagement-ranking algorithms optimize for time-on-platform and outrage happens to perform well. Both are true and neither explains […]

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