How digital media fuels moral outrage – and what to do about it

If you're not outraged, goes the perennial saying, you're not paying attention.

But in today's online attention economy, attending to the outrageous feels less like writing a check and more like setting up an automatic withdrawal. Open Facebook or Twitter, and you are likely to be greeted by a bottomless feed of outrage-triggering stimuli on matters both momentous and trifling, all handpicked just for you by an artificial intelligence that gets smarter each time you click, tap, and scroll.

So if you're like the two-thirds of Americans who say they read at least one thing in the news each day that makes them angry,

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