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        1. I mean besides anyone who remembered the exact same thing happening to the term clickbait? Chronotope/818474928324378624
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        The irony in using a badly defined phrase that is a poor choice to talk about propaganda, lies and fraud is that it was an SEO decision
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      Aggressive liars and content fraudsters understand distribution systems better then publishers and can turn pubs' power against them.
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    This should have been the biggest takeaway from 2016, which made it very obvious. But publications keep trudging along with old strategies.
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      The media continues to willfully misuse 'clickbait' because it performs well in search and social...
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        So I'm betting we in the media will continue to hurt ourselves by misusing 'fake news' for a long time, because hey it brings the eyeballs.
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          This will continue even though it is *the very behavior* that created conditions for all flavors of fake news to prosper.
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            "Fake News": There's propaganda, lies and content fraud. Each is a very different problem with different solutions.
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              As long as we call all of these the same thing, we won't be able to properly deal with any of them. Journalists should know: words matter.
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                Also falling under the label "Fake News" petersterne/818479404380721152


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