3 ms·

"Sam Biddle wrote an article [on] the clickbait phenomenon" Well, leave it to the experts.

• pohl 10y ago
  The article that I linked to may be one that not everybody agrees with, but it is a well-written and thoughtful article that isn't anywhere near the clickbait-farm model. If the problem were merely that people selectively shared thoughtful but biased articles within their own information bubble, the problem would not be so severe. The clickbait problem, in contrast, is that people share – within milliseconds - articles that are designed merely to siphon money from that dopamine hit, with no good-faith effort to even make any sense whatsoever.