• bus_factor@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s because the threshold for writing “X causes outrage” in a headline is “one random nobody tweeted angrily about it”. For any given topic you can always find at least a single person who is angry about it. So this might just as well be known as the Shitty Clickbait Journalism Age.

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      1 year ago

      Then again, people do love to go with the outrage train, even if it is something they don’t care that much about.