Titles like this drive clicks, as evidenced by the fact that this is now at the top of HN.

I don't like the title either, but the internet is built to incentivize behavior and content like this, unfortunately.

s/the internet/the economy/

IP definitely has its failings, but the incentive behind clickbait is a late stage economy answerable only to its own metrics.

On a technical level, "The Web" (HTTP/JS) is much more at fault than "The Internet", as its naive designs have fostered a surveillance industry that transmutes a negative-value pageview into positive money.

This was my favorite editorial-posing-as-neutral-news sentence:

> as the top Republican in Congress blocks efforts to protect the integrity of elections.

(translation: democrats want to protect our elections, republicans are russians)

I wonder if it will be able to detect massive journalistic malfeasance by people who perpetuated multi-year-long rumors about pee tapes, or whatever other politically motivated "news" posing as journalism

A literal statement of fact triggering that reaction says more about your filter bubble than the author of that article. Instead of just dismissing it you could talk about why don’t think the bills he’s blocking won’t work, how you don’t believe the reported threats are real, or the politics behind McConnell refusing to let legislation move forward.

Came in to post just this. I would not expect such sensationalist/incorrect headlines from Bloomberg, but here we are.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a part of the military. If it is launching a project to fight dis/mis-information then isn’t that an accurate title?

It’s a research arm handing out grants. That’s very different from what the title implies, which is as if it were like any other war/operation with top active command and a ton of resources. The use of the word unleash implies there’s some strong existing momentum just being held back by an arbitrary gate.

DARPA funded the internet. Did the US unleash military to network computers? I think we could all agree that’s hyperbolic.

No, it's not accurate. It uses words aimed to give impression which is incorrect. "Unleashing military" means, in common parlance, physical attack of the armed forces, not fundamental research branch of DoD initiating a project. DARPA is a research division which initiated a lot of projects having wide non-military applications. Specifying that it is DARPA initiating the research project is a vital piece of context which changes the whole understanding of what is going on.

It's like publishing a headline saying "Elvis Presley sighted in Moscow", forgetting to specify that it's not the Elvis everybody thinks about, but some other guy that happens to have the same name, and has lived in Moscow, Arkansas, for his whole life and nothing of note happened to him ever. Classic clickbait.