[JacobJans]

There is something about the Facebook platform that encourages thoughtless distribution of incorrect and violent ideas. I don't say this lightly; a certain subset of users seem to get hooked on the propogation of "viral crazy," with no regard to the factual accuracy of their posts, or the real world consequences of their ideas.

I believe what happens is that people become "gamified." They use the logic of video games; going after points/likes, and gaining immense satisfaction when they are victorious.

The power of gamification shouldn't be underestimated. Especially when it combines with personal identity, as it does on Facebook.

Gambling addiction can destroy lives; Facebook uses the same psychology, and combines it with personal identity. Most people are not very vulnerable to gambling addiction. The same is true with Facebook gamification. However, certain people are highly vulnerable, and have become victims of those vulnerabilities.

[orbifold]

Reddit has a lot of similar dynamics, you get karma for submissions and comments. Depending on the subreddits you post to you get very different feedback. Try to debunk or contradict any conspiracy theory in /r/conspiracy or say something negative about donald trump in one of its fan sub reddits and observe the reaction. The good thing, as you observe, is that there it is not directly tied to your real identity, which means you can appear to be a relatively normal sysadmin in real life and be the moderator of a host of morally corrupt subreddits. On the other hand ideally you are not as invested in a particular account, even though reddit tries hard to counteract this with reddit gold and various trophies.

[blakesterz]

Maybe it's the people that use most/all social media platforms the most often tend to use it for distribution of incorrect and violent ideas? I don't really know if they platforms encourage it, or that people who do it just tend to do it, regardless.