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Noun Concept
Categories: Technology neologisms, Pejorative terms related to technology, Articles with short description, News media manipulation, Deception
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clickbait  Click-bait  Click-baiting  Click-baity  click bait
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Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading. Wikipedia
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Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading. Wikipedia
Web content whose main goal is to entice users to click on a link to go to a certain webpage or video Wikidata
Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs; such headlines. Wiktionary
Content aimed at generating advertising revenue. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
web content
false advertising
HAS KIND
One weird trick
chumbox
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Celebbait
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clickbait
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clickbait
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clickbait
Wikipedia Redirections
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