I don’t disagree, but the impressive syntactical gymnastics you did to obfuscate the motivation (“get clicks”) and the guilty act (“intentionally mislead”) is t

I don’t disagree, but the impressive syntactical gymnastics you did to obfuscate the motivation (“get clicks”) and the guilty act (“intentionally mislead”) is telling. Untangling that sentence gets us the much clearer, and I think more accurate, “new organizations chase clicks without any interest in whether their headlines are true or false”. Skepticism is not conspiratorial thinking, of course. I meant it in the most narrow way — many people in this thread believe, without evidence, that some group of people is consciously coordinating massive distortions of news to further specific ends.