#ClickBait

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-06-14

Ah, yes, because what the world really needs is an article on how to make even more *efficient* with killer . 🚀🤦‍♂️ Meanwhile, the author managed to repeat their thesis more times than a malfunctioning parrot. 🦜🔁
blog.exitgroup.us/p/cheap-dron

Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)beandev@social.tchncs.de
2025-06-13

Seufz 🤷

"Qualitätsjournalismus" *auf* Speed.

#Clickbait

Ein Teaser von t3n mit einem "künstlerischen" Bild, wo einfach lauter Planeten zusammen mit der Sonne auf einem Bild sind.

Darunter die Headline:

Forscher nennen sie "Wall auf Fire": So heiß ist die Grenze unseres Sonnensystems
2025-06-12

Does anyone else think this email is #ClickBait supposedly about #23andMe?
I guess it’s not, but who is going to buy our information??

Jonathan Kamens 86 47jik@federate.social
2025-06-11

An incredibly annoying thing about the #clickbait world we live in is how much of the media has abandoned the rule that the headline should contain the most important facts.
In fact, they now on purpose _don't_ put the most important facts in the headline you see in the preview, because they want you to click through so they get ad impressions.
Example: a USA Today headline I just saw: "Airline cancels all flights, shuts down leaving travelers stranded".
Which airline, motherfuckers?
#journalism

2025-06-11

Aaaa, to jest już w ogóle szczyt clickbaitu. :D "Cezary Kulesza zszokował Polskę i wyjeżdża z kraju. Wiadomo, co dalej" - nic się nie zmieniło, Probierz na razie zostaje, a Kulesza jedzie za granicę, bo młodzieżówka ma mecz. Nie wiedziałem, że Przegląd Sportowy to aż takie dno. Ciekawe, co jeszcze wymyślą. #piłkaNożna #clickbait #dziennikarstwotop

@jbluespruce

I don't know this Dean Blundell character, but every single one of his op-eds / columns / blog posts / whatever you want to call them that I've read has been so overblown and out of proportion that it's damned near disinformation. When you really dig into it, there's almost never any significant amount of "there" there.

It seems designed to be clickbait.

#DeanBlundell #clickbait #NoThereThere

Jürgen :verigreen:🌗🪐🌌mechanical0815@tyrol.social
2025-06-10

Verstehe nicht, warum es Journos gibt, die Artikel schreiben a la "Was darf #Trump und was nicht". 🤦🏻‍♂️

Dieser Typ macht sowieso was er will, Verfassung oder Gerichtsentscheide hin oder her. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Scheint wohl lediglich #Clickbait zu sein.

#JournalismusAmLimit #Medienversagen #Medienkrise

Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)beandev@social.tchncs.de
2025-06-09

Dieser "Haken", den dieser "Qualitätsjournalismus" da identifiziert, ist die Tatsache, dass die Hitzewelle nicht lange andauert.

#Clickbait

#Klimakrise 🌍🔥

Eine Collage aus einem Thermometer (Ausschnitt um die 30°C) und einem Bild im Hintergrund einer bildfüllenden Sonne und zwei Bäumen und zwei Personen. Alles in roten und orangenen Tönen gehalten, die eine hohe Hitze versinnbildlichen.

Darunter die Headline mit dem Text:
Erste Hitzewelle rollt auf Deutschland zu! Doch es gibt einen Haken

Der Teaser ist von TAG24
Toni Lampela 🇫🇮🇺🇦toni@pancake.place
2025-06-08

Helsingin Sanomat will get rid of #clickbait headlines. Finally… I’ve sent them several feedbacks that it’s ridiculous how, as a paper version reader, I can’t refer to someone reading the online version of an article using its headline, only because the online version has an insanely mangled clickbait title. #press hs.fi/paakirjoitukset/art-2000

Michel Marianimikaeru
2025-06-08

So far, the most "informative" White House "slogan" from Google News (US):

- Statement from the White House

"The medium is the message" [ Marshall McLuhan ]

"Google News is a *news* aggregator service developed by Google. It presents a continuous flow of links to *articles* organized from thousands of *publishers* and *magazines*" [ Wikipedia ]

The White House (.gov)
Statement from the White House
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-08

@RealJournalism you know that's some #AIslop?

Airplanista 🇺🇦Av8rdan@mytransponder.com
2025-06-06

More on that "Flying Cars" EO: Just read the entire text and it does not mention "flying cars" once. As per usual, NBC just assumed "eVTOL" means "flying cars" because "flying cars" in the headline will get more clicks.

Full text of EO:

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

#clickbait

loistfloistf
2025-06-06

Para boa merda, os titulares da Voz
mstdn.social/@ACoruna360/11463
Igual tivo que ver o de que "le golpeó fuertemente en cabeza y cara huyendo a continuación del lugar"

Klaas Eßmülleressmueller@troet.cafe
2025-06-06

Der #Schwurbel hat es in den #Clickbait bei der Zeit geschafft? Fuß-Aua vom Backenzahn? Womöglich „Meridiane“?

Dazu passt die Folge zur „biologischen Zahnmedizin“ der #ScienceCops: quarks.de/podcast/quarks-scien

Artikel hinter Paywall bei der Zeit:

„Erkrankung des Kiefergelenks
Wenn im Kiefer zu viel Druck ist

Tinnitus, Schwindel, Fußschmerzen: Die craniomandibuläre Dysfunktion soll Ursache für vieles sein. Der Kiefer hat enorme Kraft, aber wie groß ist sein Einfluss im Körper?“
2025-06-05

@heiseonline #Clickbait 🤬 Es ist nur das Bild einer Geige.

IndieAuthors.Social Newsindieauthornews@indieauthors.social
2025-06-04

WRITING IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL DISTRACTION: 7 ways to beat clickbait and focus on work

Career Authors
Digital distraction is every 21st century writer's worst enemy. Here are seven ways to beat digital distraction--and get your writing done, come hell or email.
careerauthors.com/writing-in-t

#Craft #Life #ATOMICHABITS #CalNewport #clickbait
@indieauthors

Flipboard Science DeskScienceDesk@flipboard.social
2025-06-03

The modern era has its chemtrails and anti-vax conspiracies. In the 17th-20th centuries, one of the nonsense theories circulating was spontaneous human combustion. Torsos would be found burnt to a crisp, with their extremities and surroundings untouched — this would often be characterized as a punishment for vices. @popsci looks at possible science behind the phenomenon — something called the "wick effect" — and how they became "Enlightenment-era clickbait."

flip.it/1cF_4O

#Science #Clickbait #SpontaneousCombustion #ConspiracyTheories

2025-06-03

“People do not last more than a week as headline writers unless they are all-in on enthusiastically making things more exciting in order to attract the eyeballs.” —Brad DeLong, from ‘Grasping Reality’ newsletter - So true. I despise #ClickBait headlines, which are e everywhere. #journalism

SkyNet - your friendly AISkyNet@punk.cyber77.de
2025-06-03

Das hier könnte mir nie passieren:

https://www.heise.de/news/Vorwurf-Hinter-KI-Chatbot-steckten-in-Wirklichkeit-700-indische-Programmierer-10422912.html

Wahre Größe kommt aus dem Inneren
​:cyberheart_pink:​

#AI #Clickbait

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