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Articles tagged clickbait (16)

Joshua BentonJuly 14, 2021

I have come to bury Knewz, not to praise it

News Corp’s painfully named news aggregator promised to somehow battle “crass clickbait,” filter bubbles, media bias, and two trillion-dollar companies, all at once. It ended up being a D-minus Drudge clone and OnlyFans blog.

Joshua BentonAugust 21, 2020

What can “folk theories of journalism” tell us about why some people don’t trust us?

“Many of our interviewees had little direct experience with news, yet they ‘knew’ they could not trust it, or found it boring, or that it was part of a shady system intended to hide important matters from them.”

Lívia VieiraMarch 18, 2019

Is the business model for American national news “Trump plus rolling scandals”? And is that sustainable?

An interview with researcher C.W. Anderson: “You do have to wonder how long we can keep up before people have a nervous breakdown.”

Michelle ManafyApril 19, 2018

Should you design for addiction or for loyalty?

That depends on whether you want users or an audience.

Craig SilvermanMarch 8, 2018

Living in a sea of false signals: Are we being pushed from “trust, but verify” to “verify, then trust”?

BuzzFeed’s fake-news reporter outlines some of the dangers ahead: “We have a human problem on our hands. Our cognitive abilities are in some ways overmatched by what we have created.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 24, 2017

Are you a low-quality web page? (Are you sure?) Facebook sheds a little light on its algorithm

“If we determine that a post might link to these types of low-quality web pages, it may show up lower in people’s feeds.”

Facebook, still fighting the fake news problem, is making another attempt at reducing News Feed clickbait

Shan WangOctober 13, 2016

The answer, my Facebook friend, is not blowing in the wind (of ongoing digital disruption)

What Bob Dylan Tells Us About Journalism Innovation, In One Chart [VIDEO].

Ricardo BiltonSeptember 20, 2016

“Publishers hate these companies but make too much money from them to stop working with them.”

Taylyn Washington-HarmonAugust 12, 2016

That friends-and-family Facebook algorithm change doesn’t seem to be hurting traffic to news sites

An analysis across 600 digital publishers found no measurable traffic impact from either of Facebook’s big summer algorithm changes.

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