Sometimes I wonder who is actually paid to trawl the internet to make stories out of social media content. It seems like a cushy job to me. If they ban certain media, those people will be out of a job.
They do rely on emotional pull. I have to resist the strong urge to click on the headline that promises a titillating tale of why a bridesmaid slept with both the bride AND the groom or why the ENTIRE INTERNET IS DIVIDED OVER THIS ONE THING.
But then many others don't have this 💪 strength or understanding they're being sold a line.
Let alone how poor people's literacy of any kind is. Or how hard it is to find good longform content, because our attention spans have been reduced to slivers.