PREMIUM: Angertainment: How Online Outrage Ruined Everything

Can we blame polarisation on right-wing internet crazies? Or is the whole online system shot? The most valuable thing we produce online is anger. Not our data, our habits, or our clicks, but our anger. Ed Coper is a progressive activist who wants us to understand how tech platforms farm anger on an industrial scale. He calls it angertainment: the machiner… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode .