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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by CraigJPerry on Friday January 31, 2020 @12:49PM (#22203712)
There’s quite a lot of formulaic pieces written in UK media where the news outlet comment section has more outraged commenters than the original issue.

If you use dailymail.co.uk and search for “outraged” there’s quite a few examples of this formula being used.

I suppose it increases impression time of adverts which means higher price earned for them. I’m not criticising the business accumen.

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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by iron0013 on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:59PM (#22205022)
This pattern happens so often that you’d think people would start to catch on. A story about one person supposedly being “outraged” about something leads to a huge vigorous CJ of folks eager to express their anti-outrage-outrage at the straw man in front of them.
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