Rage bait: the psychology behind social media’s angriest posts | The-14

Explores why rage-bait posts thrive on social media, how algorithms amplify anger for engagement, and what you can do to control your reactions every day more.

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#CallForPapers: Our full-day workshop at The Web Conference 2026 #TheWebConf2026 invites submissions on reproducible and reusable computational approaches for social and web data.
👉 https://easychair.org/cfp/r2cass2026

Deadline: Dec 18th, 2025

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Study finds 75% of Facebook shares are made without reading the content

A study of 35 million Facebook posts found that 75% of shared links were shared without users clicking on them, with political content—especially extreme or ideologically aligned headlines—being shared without reading more often than neutral content.

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