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Unrelated to the content of the story, but interesting nonetheless... While reading the article (which was low quality with a flawed attention-grabbing headlin
by dbatten 9y ago
Unrelated to the content of the story, but interesting nonetheless...
While reading the article (which was low quality with a flawed attention-grabbing headline, as others have pointed out), I noticed 3 consecutive articles linked on the right side were for porn-related stories. I don't know too much about the International Business Times, but the name would have made me think it was a relatively upstanding news source. Plus, the .co.uk always adds a bit of extra class for us Americans.
So, I looked the place up on Wikipedia[1]. Here's what I found...
"In late 2011, Google allegedly moved the outlet's articles down in search results in response to excessive search engine optimization activity."
"Reporting in 2014, Mother Jones claimed that IBT journalists are subject to constant demand to produce clickbait; one former employee reportedly complained that management issued 'impossible' demands, including a minimum of 10,000 hits per article, and fired those who couldn't deliver."
And it goes on...
So, yep, pretty much a click-bait factory. No wonder the story is so mangled.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Business_Times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Business_Times