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Twitter deliberately promotes outrage. While hateful screaming is nothing new in the world of politics (or elsewhere), for Twitter and other ad-sellers this is a way to capture attention of users and drag them into flame wars.

See this blog for one case thereof: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=46541



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