• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m pretty confident it’s always the writer who smells an opportunity for clicks, do they write the story first then look for a source.

    If they luck out, they’ll find it trending. But mostly it’s the “one person on Twitter” scenario.

    The worst part is when the content gets shared.

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      10 months ago

      500 clicks in an hour, half a goddamned penny of ad revenue, then it’s time to move on to the next droplet of junk content.