youtube Get rid of ridiculous faces: DeArrow extension crowdsources non-hideous YouTube thumbnails Mark Frauenfelder
clickbait An exposé of viral content farms and the tricks they use to get you to click Rusty Blazenhoff
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politics Fox News refuses to apologize for fabricated story about dead Marine whose sole source was a far-right Florida congressman (Update: they finally puked one up) Rob Beschizza
twitter Despite negative feedback from advertisers, Musk confirms plan to further reduce Twitter/X's utility Jason Weisberger
art Artist Nemo Gould's "Click Bait" is the "painful reminder of our folly" we all need Gareth Branwyn
literature "Gaslighting" isn't Merriam-Webster's 2022 word of the year, darling, you're just confused Rob Beschizza
music Morrissey just published a scathing open letter to Johnny Marr: "Stop using my name as click-bait" David Pescovitz
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tabloids Absence of evidence is evidence of a cover-up, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan