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[–] 139 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Now that’s a headline that isn’t clickbait, it fucking click kidnapped me

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  • [–] 73 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Damn. I’m taking stock of everything we’ve lost in the headline:

    • no reference to “slammed,” “burned,” or other intense attack words
    • accurate summary of the situation
    • nothing overstated
    • no key details left out
    • isn’t a listicle
    • nothing inviting the reader to see more by promising the rest of the headline in the article, none of that saved-you-a-click shit

    My god, this might actually be good honest journalism!

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases.

    So crappy journalism.

    Edit Apparently a lo of people have mentioned this here. I simply didn't read far enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases.

    So crappy journalism.

    I'm starting to think that link aggregators like the Threadiverse software and Reddit should keep a log of headlines, or at least headlines that they see, because it's a real issue for discussion on those sites. Like, maybe check and update at a geometrically-increasing interval (at submission time, after 1 hour, after 2 hours, after 4 hours, after 8 hours, etc).

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    If you go back and re-read the article, you'll find it's been edited, and now has no mention of any diseases and says the monkeys weren't infectious. So I think it was clickbait, after all.

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