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WebMD has a profit driven interest to pick on health anxiety by exaggerating symptoms
by CardenB 7y ago
WebMD has a profit driven interest to pick on health anxiety by exaggerating symptoms
- lvturner 7y agoProfiting through advertising, or is there darker connections? Sorry, I'm genuinely not trying to be obtuse, but I'm just not quite sure on how that would work - does exaggerating the symptoms cause people to spend longer on the site? Or is it just to drive up search ranking? Or improve click through?
- ashildr 7y agoDramatized, controverse stories bring more “interaction” and are more readily shared on social media. So they bring more pageviews and ad revenue. This is why news and social media are the shit dispensaries they are today.