revjohn
Well-Known Member
Click bait.
That is what the title is.
An intentional ploy designed to drag traffic into viewing an article under the pretext that the more views the truer the thread is.
It deliberately plays on the logical fallacy of argumentum ad populum (truth is determined by the number of people who believe a proposition to be true) and is directly tied to dog-whistle type politics.
If your news outlet relies on article headlines similar to the title of this thread you are not being fed fact so much as you are being spoon fed opinion.
That is what the title is.
An intentional ploy designed to drag traffic into viewing an article under the pretext that the more views the truer the thread is.
It deliberately plays on the logical fallacy of argumentum ad populum (truth is determined by the number of people who believe a proposition to be true) and is directly tied to dog-whistle type politics.
If your news outlet relies on article headlines similar to the title of this thread you are not being fed fact so much as you are being spoon fed opinion.