Moral outrage in the digital age

By Molly J. Crockett. Nature Human Behaviour, 2017

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Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention (2020, background): “Thus, attention may by default be focused on other factors, such as concerns about social validation and reinforcement (e.g., Brady, Crockett, & Van Bavel, 2020; Crockett, 2017) rather than accuracy.”
Citizens Versus the Internet: Confronting Digital Challenges With Cognitive Tools (2019, background): “Moreover, manipulative use of certain cues—for instance, creating fake-news websites, impersonating well-known sources and social-media accounts, inflating emotional content (Crockett, 2017), or creating an illusion of consensus (Yousif et al.”
The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online (2019, background): “…highlights that social-media posts containing moral-emotion expression receive increased amounts of positive social feedback on social media, which has the potential to amplify our natural tendency to express moral emotions such as outrage via social reinforcement (Crockett, 2017; see below).”