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Re:No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble by belly_joe on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:38AM (#29567378)
The dynamic sort of of reminds me of the "market for lemons" in that the bad drives out the good.

Not really quite the same though. The question is what the production function for articles looks like from the publisher/journalist perspective. If it's easier to produce clickbait articles than "real" articles then I think this effect is what we see in the market for news. But from another angle, it seems more labor intensive for a journalist to spin a weak finding into a strong finding than to simply report an exciting finding directly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

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Re:No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble by Randor on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:50AM (#29567627)
Yeah,

It makes me sad to think that I contribute to this process. I have to admit... that I probably do read alot of those clickbait articles giving them more views.

It makes me even more sad when I think about the platforms that are removing the ability to downvote incorrect/misleading information.

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