#Hashtag Outrage

Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 9:05 a.m.

We live in an age of constant outrage. On social media, many people seem to be almost continually offended and outraged. As part of Radio National's The Big 20 : Our century so far we ponder the uses and abuses of social media. While we're busy shouting, retweeting, and "piling on" have we lost the ability to tell the difference between genuine injustice and online feeding frenzies?