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Clickbait

Clickbait (also known as link bait or linkbait) is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow ("click") that link and view, read, stream or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading. A "teaser" aims to exploit the "curiosity gap"…

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Clickbait

Nodes61
Edges60
Triples74
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032787
Components1

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Clickbait

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related to Backlash · 15
Clickbait → Ad, August, BuzzFeed, By, Clickbait-reporting, ClickHole, Facebook, Security, Social, Stop Clickbait, The, The Onion, Twitter, Upworthy, Web
related to Definition · 15
Clickbait → Ben Smith, Buzzfeed, Buzzfeed's, Cancer To Disney World, Dictionary, Father Who Has Terminal, In, Internet, Merriam-Webster, Money To Take Her, Smith, Smith's, The, While, Year-Old Girl Raised Enough
related to Use · 15
Clickbait → Breitbart News, Click-through, CTRs, Emotional, Engagement, Gawker Media, Huffington Post, It, Katharine Viner, Salon, Slate, The Guardian, Townhall, Used, YouTube
related to External links · 12
Clickbait → All, Click, Clickbait Media, Kevin, May, Munger, News That's Fit, Pennsylvania State University, Political Communication, Profile, S2CID, The Economics
related to background · 6
Clickbait → According, From, Howard Kurtz, In, One, Washington Post
is a · 1
Clickbait → form of fraud

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content used news also click link headlines online youtube headline media users websites user form definition bait page social designed

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Clickbaitis aform of fraud0.90text
Upworthyinstance ofthat parodied clickbait websites0.80text
BuzzFeedinstance ofthat parodied clickbait websites0.80text
andinstance ofthat parodied clickbait websites0.80text
in August of that same yearinstance ofthat parodied clickbait websites0.80text
Facebook announced that it was taking technical measures to reduce the impact of clickbait on its social networkinstance ofthat parodied clickbait websites0.80text
usinginstance ofthat parodied clickbait websites0.80text
among other cuesinstance ofthat parodied clickbait websites0.80text
the time spent by the user on visiting the linked page as a way of distinguishing clickbait from other types of contentinstance ofthat parodied clickbait websites0.80text
Twitterinstance ofwhile social media platforms0.80text
Facebook have implemented algorithms to filter clickbait contentsinstance ofwhile social media platforms0.80text
Clickbaitrelated to backgroundFrom0.60section

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