r/technology • u/wizardofthefuture • Dec 10 '24

Social Media Google steps in after McDonald's gets ‘review bombed’ over arrest in UnitedHealth CEO's murder

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/google-steps-in-after-mcdonalds-get-review-bombed-over-arrest-in-unitedhealth-ceos-murder-101733809168783.html
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u/GovernmentBig2749 Dec 10 '24

Redditors dont even click on an article 92% of the time :)

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u/WanderingMustache Dec 10 '24

We read the title, and make assumptions. Nothing more.

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u/BarelyContainedChaos Dec 10 '24

as is tradition

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u/alnarra_1 Dec 10 '24

We've been doing it for 18ish years, why stop now. Just as we did at Digg, and Slashdot before.

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u/Mr_Stoney Dec 10 '24

I'm just here for spicy comments

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u/Ok-Clock2002 Dec 10 '24

I assumed this comment would be here!

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u/Deaffin Dec 10 '24

We use the article as an excuse to write an engaging title, then seed the initial comments with sockpuppet accounts and vote-bot the correct sentiments in all the right places in order to radicalize the youth.

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u/TadRaunch Dec 10 '24

A lot of the time the article is loaded with ads to the point it's unreadable, behind a paywall, or both.

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u/coltrainjones Dec 27 '24

It's usually an article written by AI and posted by a bot for ad revenue anyways

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u/20_mile Dec 10 '24

What's wrong with that?

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u/caguru Dec 10 '24

What’s an article?

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u/Constipatedpersona Dec 10 '24

Its the words that are squeezed in between the ads on those websites you sometimes accidentally go into on reddit.

Source: Have accidentally clicked on one

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u/94FnordRanger Dec 10 '24

But that's not important right now.

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u/herrirgendjemand Dec 10 '24

You're thinking of headlines. Articles are the cousins to pronouns but less woke

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u/Constipatedpersona Dec 10 '24

I thought a head line was when you bury your head in a large pile of blow. Guess I was wrong.

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u/Mr_ToDo Dec 10 '24

With what a lot of Reddit posts?

A long headline with no sources linked and often not even cited, but often explaining why the short headline is incorrect. Although seeing the long headline for Reddit linked short headline often requires payment because they suck at picking free sources(do they have paid accounts or is it just the site themselves posting that crap?).

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u/throwwwittawaayyy Dec 10 '24

if those kids could read they'd be real upset right now

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u/Ereaser Dec 10 '24

That's why all Twitter posts are just screenshots from the Twitter post

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u/vigouge Dec 10 '24

There's an article?

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u/Steel1000 Dec 10 '24

Those are rookie numbers

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u/jwktiger Dec 10 '24

they click on it 8% of the time?

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u/mad-i-moody Dec 10 '24

Usually when I do try to read an article it has a fuckin paywall anyway.

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u/terminalbungus Dec 11 '24

Did you know that 83% of the statistics people quote on Reddit are made up?

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u/Marvin2021 Dec 10 '24

Trump and Musk found to run child porn ring!

Details about fantasy book writers new book coming out inside the article.......