>I've also seen scummy tactics like changing the headline to be less "clickbaity" some timeframe after the article is released. Now that you mention it, just r

>I've also seen scummy tactics like changing the headline to be less "clickbaity" some timeframe after the article is released. Now that you mention it, just recently I began noticing how some news publications in my country do this, especially on interviews or opinion pieces. They'll put a seemingly outrageous, absolutely out of context quote by the interviewee or the author on the headline, only to modify it a couple of hours later. >I think wide adoption of social media is the cancer that destroyed great journalism the world over. I agree. I'd even go on to say that social media--with the necessary aid of smartphones--has amplified all the negative aspects of capitalism and globalisation, in general.