Abstract:Clickbait is a sensational title that makes us click internet links to an article, image, or video. Online content providers use clickbait to gain user traffic, that leads to increasing income from the placed ads in their page. To attract more and more traffic, online content providers write sensational and hyperbolic titles, and even misleading and not telling the whole story. This can give us, the internet consumer, wrong perspective, and half-truth. And nowadays, clickbait titles are worse than ever. Modern… Show more
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