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Why anger goes viral

We seem to be living in a world of polarised opinions giving rise to increasingly angry exchanges on social media. Aleks Krotoski asks how online anger works, and Dr Ryan Martin and Pankaj Mishra discuss the social role of anger and why so many groups have begun to rely on it to get their way.

First broadcast on Digital Human, 10 April 2017.

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