This. Most news sites nowadays are all about clickbait and ragenews while pushing their financer's agenda (left wing, right wing, whatever)
And there's always the users whose only purpose is to post these clickbait/ragenews in 30 different communities as if they were karma farming on reddit; just poisoning the global feed with doomposting.
The argument is control. Religious zealots are all about controlling society and subduing people to follow their rules (that they themselves tend to break all the time)