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Outrage 013 – How moral misinformation uses emotion to generate outrage – Ritsaart Reimann
David Beckemeyer
Aired May 17, 2023 There’s been a drum beat, suggesting that social media and information silos, echo chambers, are a driving force behind our divisiveness and polarization. New research suggests this may be overstated. It may have more to do with the very nature of how we come to know or believe things in the…
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Outrage 006 – How virality results in moral panics – Kurt Gray
David Beckemeyer
Aired Feb 8, 2023 Moral panics are not uncommon. Back in the 1980’s there was a moral panic over the game Dungeons and Dragons. Some parents believed D&D was the work of the devil, a gateway to joining a Satanic cult. It wasn’t “but this didn’t stop people from worrying about it,” says my guest…
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Outrage Overload is a podcast about the outrage industry, my journey to discover what it is, how it affects us, and what we can do about it.


