Neowin News Feed for: Clickbait

YouTube declares war against "egregious clickbait" thumbnails and titles in India

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:46:01 +0000

YouTube announced that it will start a major crackdown against video titles and thumbnails that are clickbait in nature. The stricter rules will be enforced in India over the coming months. Read more...

Google's LaMDA AI sentient? More like "pure clickbait" says AI expert

Sayan Sen — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 10:24:02 +0000

A Google ex-employee claimed that the company's LaMDA AI had become sentient. However, Google did not agree and now, another expert agrees saying that the stories were "pure clickbait". Read more...

Facebook takes action to curb the spread of clickbait videos

Hamza Jawad — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 22:54:01 +0000

Facebook has announced that it will restrict the spread of clickbait videos showing up on the News Feed. These include videos featuring a fake play button and static images displaying as videos. Read more...

Over 50% of internet users fall for this despite risks, says research

Justin Luna — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 12:58:01 +0000

An experiment was conducted about security by the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. The study sent scam emails to test subjects, and then measured who would open the links inside the message. Read more...

Malware-ridden spam email allegedly contains video of Hillary Clinton meeting ISIS leader

Justin Luna — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:06:01 +0000

A new spam email supposedly containing a clip of presidentiable Hillary Clinton meeting with ISIS' leader is spreading on the internet. However, it only contains malware to infect the recipient. Read more...

Facebook wants to cut clickbait from user's news feeds

Paul Hill — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 05:18:02 +0000

Facebook will roll out an update to its network in the coming weeks which will see clickbait articles get relegated lower down user's news feeds. Pages that regularly post clickbait will be affected. Read more...

Facebook to ditch clickbait headlines

Jett Goldsmith — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:57:44 +0000

Facebook is taking measures to boost quality journalism by reducing the number of clickbait headlines shown in news feeds and making good headlines more visible. Read more...