In the architecture of digital attention, money has always followed engagement — and engagement, research shows, follows outrage. Meta's creator payment system, which distributed nearly three billion dollars in 2025, has made this ancient dynamic newly legible: when a platform rewards what performs, it risks rewarding what inflames, regardless of intent. The discovery that white nationalist and anti-vaccine accounts quietly earned through Facebook's monetization program is less a story of malice than of structural misalignment — a reminder that incentive systems, left unexamined, tend to fund