Rage baiting is the deliberate engineering of content designed to provoke outrage, anger, and controversy in audiences who may know they are being manipulated but engage anyway because the psychological pull is stronger than the intellectual awareness. Unlike organic controversy that emerges from genuinely provocative ideas or necessary conflicts about real stakes, rage baiting manufactures outrage through calculated exploitation of psychological triggers, tribal identities, and moral emotions that evolved for entirely different purposes. It works because human psychology is deeply and predictably vulnerable to anger-based engagement in ways that bypass rational evaluation almost entirely. Our brains respond to perceived threats...