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Honestly, virtue signaling on social media for dopamine hits. You get rewarded for ”correct opinions" and even if you started out somewhat moderate on the subject, you eventually radicalize yourself.
It's a coercion technique they learned from Vietnam. American POWs would get rewarded for simple things, like writing one paragraph about what is bad about America. Next day, tell us why American imperialism is harmful, etc. The POWs would go along with it for something as pointless as a candy bar. What harm could it do, I don't actually believe America is bad!
They did this repeatedly, becoming more critical as time passed. Eventually they radicalized themselves and it was no longer coercion but cooperation.
Actually, it goes right back to BF Skinner. You're describing a Skinner Box. Push the right lever, get the reward you want. Push the wrong one, get a nasty shock.
You might be interested to investigate the types of psychological experiments they have done on non-humans. They are just applying stuff learned 100 years ago.