Why the Clickbaity headline, CNBC?
You clicked it and read the article, so it worked as intended. As long as this shit works, they will continue to do it.
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partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Headline: “Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees”
In the body of the article: Google is laying off at least 200 employees
So hundreds is 2 of them, 2 hundreds. Literally the lowest definition of the term “hundreds” to still be accurate. Why the Clickbaity headline, CNBC? The truth was enough.
Grippler@feddit.dk 8 months ago
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
True, and it makes me trust CNBC less. Further, my post here saves everyone else from reading the article because its click-bait. Their bad faith headline is costing them clicks.
Grippler@feddit.dk 8 months ago
Their bad faith headline is costing them clicks.
Unfortunately it is still a clear net positive for them. Despite some of us actively pushing back against it, most people just click to read.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For now, sure. There as a time, now long ago, where I’d follow a Daily Mail link to read a story, until I noticed that the inflammatory headline used was never…ever substantiated. Now a refuse to even click on any Daily Mail links because I know they’re in bad faith. I don’t think I’m alone in this.
CNBC is voting itself onto that same block list.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s not clickbait. Its the literal truth, and gives you a possible range of 200-900 people, as after that they would have said “thousands.”
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m gonna be that person…
thousand