Bad Mobs of Good People: The Paradox of Viral Outrage

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By Neuroskeptic
Sep 2, 2018 7:45 PMMay 21, 2019 4:04 PM

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People become less approving of social media outrage the more people join in with it. One person rebuking another is fine, but ten people doing it looks like a mob.

This is the key finding of an interesting new paper called The Paradox of Viral Outrage, from Takuya Sawaoka and Benoît Monin of Stanford.

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