Rage Bait
In honor of Oxford University Press naming ‘rage bait’ as their 2025 Word of the Year, let’s play a little game I like to call: Find the Fake Headline …
Rage bait is online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive. Most of us will claim to know it when we see it… but do we? Do we know when our emotions are being manipulated while we’re doomscrolling in the middle of the night? Are we careful in considering what we end up writing ourselves, …
