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The senator is right: I’m not going to engage in a colloquy on the merits of this request or the previous request. This isn’t real. This is a TV show, this is clickbait, this is theater. This isn’t an actual attempt to pass legislation. – Chris Murphy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We believe in the science of things, not just the rumors on Instagram and the fear tactics and clickbait. – Melissa Scott	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Hey everybody, not sure if this is clickbait or not, but I have COVID. – Mayim Bialik	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
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. – Rik Mehta	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Creating a positive environment on our services is not just better for people, it's also better for our business. That's why we've designed our algorithms to limit clickbait and sensationalist content, which turns people away, it's also why we've done more than any other internet company to combat harmful content, including limiting content that sought to delegitimize the outcome of the election, both before and after January 6. We banned hundreds of militarized social movements, took down tens of thousands of QAnon pages, groups, and accounts from our apps, removed the original #StopTheSteal Group, labeled candidates' posts that sought to prematurely declare victory, and suspended former President Trump from our platform for at least two years. – Andy Stone	Found on CNN 3 years ago
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. – Democratic Rep. Antonio Delgado	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There's been a real effort to down-rank clickbait sensationalism. – Campbell Brown	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
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. – Dan Gainor	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
What we hope is this will create incentives for publishers to post less clickbait, we tried to be very concrete about what we defined as clickbait. – Adam Mosseri	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

The senator is right: I’m not going to engage in a colloquy on the merits of this request or the previous request. This isn’t real. This is a TV show, this is clickbait, this is theater. This isn’t an actual attempt to pass legislation.

– Chris Murphy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We believe in the science of things, not just the rumors on Instagram and the fear tactics and clickbait.

– Melissa Scott

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Hey everybody, not sure if this is clickbait or not, but I have COVID.

– Mayim Bialik

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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.

– Rik Mehta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Creating a positive environment on our services is not just better for people, it's also better for our business. That's why we've designed our algorithms to limit clickbait and sensationalist content, which turns people away, it's also why we've done more than any other internet company to combat harmful content, including limiting content that sought to delegitimize the outcome of the election, both before and after January 6. We banned hundreds of militarized social movements, took down tens of thousands of QAnon pages, groups, and accounts from our apps, removed the original #StopTheSteal Group, labeled candidates' posts that sought to prematurely declare victory, and suspended former President Trump from our platform for at least two years.

– Andy Stone

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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.

– Democratic Rep. Antonio Delgado

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There's been a real effort to down-rank clickbait sensationalism.

– Campbell Brown

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

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.

– Dan Gainor

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

What we hope is this will create incentives for publishers to post less clickbait, we tried to be very concrete about what we defined as clickbait.

– Adam Mosseri

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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