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Clickbait
Clickbait is a text or thumbnail link that is designed to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content.Click-bait headlines typically aim to exploit the "curiosity gap", providing just enough information to make readers of news websites curious, but not enough to satisfy their curiosity without clicking through to the linked content.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of clickbait in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of clickbait in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of clickbait in a Sentence
Hey everybody, not sure if this is clickbait or not, but I have COVID.
It's almost predictable that some idiot online will write an outlandish story connecting Trump to the villain du jour, all designed to generate web traffic and ad dollars. We worked through all the major historical villains the media could tie the president to -- Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini. They called him a strongman, a dictator and worse. Now it's Manson, Weinstein and probably Mugabe, the media are running out of hyperbole. It's all embarrassingly stupid. No one gets held to account for it. And the cycle begins again with the next clickbait article.
Democratic Rep. Antonio Delgado:
People talk to each other in headlines, they engage in a fashion that allows for clickbait to ensue. There seems to be very little room for substantive debate on issues that we know are of critical importance. I want figure out how to own that space and be one of hopefully a growing group of individuals in DC who are committed to really doing the business of solutions oriented work.
There's been a real effort to down-rank clickbait sensationalism.
CNN talking points used to promote clickbait COVID stories based on fear-mongering have never held water to actual epidemiological data and medical science, unfortunately for CNN, a majority of Americans recognized this fact before them, as America literally continues to witness high breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals.
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- clickbaitArabic
- clickbaitCzech
- کلیک کنیدPersian
- clickbaitHindi
- clickbaitIndonesian
- clickbaitItalian
- ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ಬೈಟ್Kannada
- clickbaitLatin
- clickbaitDutch
- clickbaitNorwegian
- clickbaitPolish
- clickbaitPortuguese
- clickbaitRomanian
- кликбейтRussian
- clickbaitSwedish
- clickbaitTamil
- clickbaitTelugu
- clickbaitThai
- clickbaitTurkish
- clickbaitVietnamese
- clickbaitYiddish
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