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For the gullible, easily manipulated, and frankly, paranoid personalities, outrage trolling - or really, rage-baiting posts and essays- often cause great confusion and anger, as they are meant to do.
What is outrage trolling or rage-baiting?
(Definitions below) are based on AI queries)
Outrage trolling involves intentionally posting inflammatory, provocative, or offensive content online designed to provoke strong negative emotions like outrage or anger.
It exploits controversial topics or polarizing opinions to spark heated arguments, disrupt discussions, or manipulate groups into public outrage. This behavior is common on social media, comment sections, or forums where emotionally charged content can spread rapidly, increasing division, misinformation, or the visibility of the troll’s message.
Outrage trolling is a specific form of provocative trolling and is closely related to rage-baiting or rage-farming, which also aim to generate engagement by manipulating emotions, and separating friends through slander and libel.
ChatGPT Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study:
"Of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and 'consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.'
Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.
"The task was executed, and you could say that it was efficient and convenient," Kosmyna says. "But as we show in the paper, you basically didn’t integrate any of it into your memory networks."
The resulting research, based on data collected from more than 60 organizations and public health agencies, shows that 44 countries and territories have reported at least one infectious disease resurgence that’s at least ten times worse than the pre-pandemic baseline.
Writes Bloomberg, "Around the world, a post-Covid reality is beginning to sink in: Everyone, everywhere, really is sick a lot more often."
Attorney Robert Barnes has reviewed French President Macron's libel complaint against American podcaster Candace Owens, and concludes that Candace recklessly went too far in her public pronouncements and is in serious trouble. His comments:
"The First Amendment heavily shapes libel law in America immunizing opinions that do not imply facts, statements that do not reference an identifiable individual, and claims made with a good faith basis and due regard for their truth remain. Other privileges or immunities may exist depending upon the jurisdiction, including the fair reporting privilege concerning governmental bodies, anti-SLAPP procedural protections, and the like.
· "A good start to assess how courts will likely construe the law on any given topic is the pattern jury instructions courts commonly issue as guidance for trial judges to explain the law to juries. To prove libel of a public figure requires: a statement made to a third person (“publication”); the statement could be...
