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What Facebook is doing to deceptive newsfeed clickbait will change your life Paid Members Public
Facebook is weeding out some deceptive clickbait practices [http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/08/news-feed-fyi-taking-action-against-video-clickbait/] : > When people click on an image in their News Feed featuring a play button, they expect a video to start playing. Spammers often use fake play buttons to trick people into clicking links
Retiring to escape clickbait? Paid Members Public
A sobering end to Jean-Louis Gassée's tribute to veteran tech columnist Walt Mossberg [https://mondaynote.com/a-salute-to-walt-mossberg-e3c562288f03]: > As bleak as this sounds, I can’t help but wonder why Walt, a young 70, has decided to retire. Is he really tired of it all? His Twitter [https:
"Bullshit curation" is bullshit Paid Members Public
Someone has a cynicism problem [https://medium.com/@aaronloeb/you-wont-believe-what-hillary-ordered-the-dnc-to-do-to-bernie-s-brother-a344eb5bad1b#.4sjg9snuz] : > The art of good headline writing and image selection in order to get someone to click and go to a website is usually called “clickbaiting,” but I think we should call it “bullshit curation.” Oh, because clearly there’
Teasing the clickthrough, visually Paid Members Public
Really nice Twitter graphic from the FT communities team. A good “tease” of the clickthrough: > Love this quote from @JananGanesh [https://twitter.com/JananGanesh] on the desperate attempts to keep Scotland from voting Yes http://t.co/XowUeoZ3Kt pic.twitter.com/ITkW05WxSK [http://t.co/ITkW05WxSK] — Esther Bintliff (@estherbintliff)
Clickbait, as mocked by comics Paid Members Public
Looks like Marvel Comics has take the measure of today’s news cycle. From yesterday’s Original Sins #1 [https://www.comixology.co.uk/Original-Sins-1-of-5/digital-comic/104064]: The “spammy click bait phase of the news cycle” just entered my vocabulary. Good work. (Not the first time comics have commented on
Clickbait, comments and screen apnea Paid Members Public
The complexities of clickbait, the problem of scale in comments — and why you're breathing wrong when you're staring at a screen…