> https://mic.com/articles/88461/a-modern-day-slave-plantation-exists-and-it-s-thriving-in-the-heart-of-america#.8QMzstFSM https://mic.com/articles/88461/a-mode

> https://mic.com/articles/88461/a-modern-day-slave-plantation-exists-and-it-s-thriving-in-the-heart-of-america#.8QMzstFSM https://mic.com/articles/88461/a-modern-day-slave-plantation... Mic.com's business model is to deliberately present things in the most inflammatory way possible to make people outraged and profit from the resulting clicks: https://theoutline.com/post/2156/mic-com-and-the-cynicism-of-modern-media https://theoutline.com/post/2156/mic-com-and-the-cynicism-of...: > During these experiments, Mic continued to bait Facebook readers into getting worked up over everything: Mark Zuckerberg’s hoodie, a high school teacher in Oregon who doesn’t believe in rape culture, people with bad opinions on Thought Catalog, people using bad hashtags, and Zazzle.com. “Mic trafficked in outrage culture,” a former staffer who left in 2017 said. “A lot of the videos that we would publish would be like, ‘Here is this racist person doing a racist thing in this nondescript southern city somewhere.’ There wouldn’t be any reporting or story around it, just, ‘Look at this person being racist, wow what a terrible racist.’” Mic had already exhausted its outrage vocabulary by the time Trump’s election supercharged civil rights violations.