Ewen Bell on Nostr: Clickbait is what drives all the bullshit online. Fake click farms. Fake headlines. ...

Clickbait is what drives all the bullshit online.

Fake click farms. Fake headlines. Fake videos on social media. Fake narratives on TikTok.

We have a situation now where people are building automated systems to mimic online clicks/traffic that drives up revenue for adverts made by other automated systems.

Computers are clicking on content made by other computers. That whiff of money is all it takes to ensure clickbait buries everything else online.