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There's a whole industry on the net of pimping "fear porn." Sometimes the fears are even complete fiction, like Fukushima causing a cancer epidemic on the US We
by api 12y ago
There's a whole industry on the net of pimping "fear porn." Sometimes the fears are even complete fiction, like Fukushima causing a cancer epidemic on the US West Coast. These sites are click farms, and some of them make a lot of money by doing nothing more than aggregating and reprinting blog articles with a fear or outrage slant. They generate massive traffic in spite of their horrible quality.
"If it bleeds it leads" is a saying because it absolutely works. There seems to be a huge attention bias toward negative information.
- zaroth 12y agoWait, I know that site... Oh yeah, drudge.
- api 12y agoDrudge is one, but there are thousands.
- Xcelerate 12y agoMy father was telling me about how everyone was worried about Halloween candy containing marijuana now that it is legal in some states. Well, I looked up more information and it turns out there were no reports that any child actually received candy with marijuana in it. It was just a news story created upon the worry of some imagined scenario.