Yes, we get it, a journalist investigating a hot story can go too far yes, trusting what someone tells you about themselves online is pretty foolish. Ultimately, Clickbait wants to make too many points at once, and characters sometimes take a back seat to the ideas showrunners are clearly trying to get across. Catfishing, cancel culture, journalistic ethics in an age of 24-7 news and gossip, the pluses and minuses of living one's life in an age of on- and off-line surveillance: all of these meaty topics and more make an appearance in Clickbait, which unspool Rashomon-style, with each episode taking on the viewpoint of a different character connected to Nick: his unstable sister, his long-suffering wife, a detective assigned to his case, his teenage son, all of whom, it turns out, have secrets and twisty motivations that are lots of fun to watch unravel. Intriguingly and briskly plotted and stocked with a great cast, this mystery/thriller series grabs attention and holds it, even if ultimately it's overstuffed with big messages. Messages about the dangers of revealing too much online are sometimes ponderous, but also thoughtful and well-intentioned. Cursing includes "s-t" and "f-k." In terms of diverse representations, a central character is Black and several characters are biracial, but this goes mostly unmentioned in service of the plot. Sexual content includes an extramarital affair, kissing, references to off-screen sex, and several scenes related to adult videos, including one in which we see a character's ecstatic face as she masturbates to images we can't see (we hear moans from her laptop), and one in which we see the titles of a character's recent video consumption, which includes vulgar words for sex and body parts. Two characters share a joint in public (in California, where marijuana use is legal). Characters drink, and one takes unnamed white pills, particularly after fraught moments. Intimate partner violence plays a part in the plot and we see a woman hit by her male partner. A death occurs suddenly off-screen and we see tension and grief of the victim's loved ones. While most of the examples he gave are very obviously clickbait (" He Put Garlic In His Shoes Before Going To Bed And What Happens Next Is Hard To Believe"), Mosseri admits that many headlines are less clear cut, which is why it's important that Facebook will only punish sites that post a high ratio of bad headlines.Parents need to know that Clickbait is a dark drama about a man whose violent kidnapping and a series of subsequent online videos threatening his death reveal a secret life to his family. It also adapts, so if a publisher sees its traffic plummet, it can recover its ranking by changing its headline style. Mosseri says that the change is really meant to target "content farms," but says that Facebook plans to watch the effects of its tweak and update accordingly. The algorithm only looks at headlines, not share descriptions. "We think that's going to be a better experience for people, because that's what we hear from people." "We're trying to change the incentives, to give publishers a reason to create headlines that are more straightforward," he says. In short, Facebook will decimate that Page's reach and referral traffic. If that algorithm identifies that a high percentage of links that a Page posts or shares rank high on the "clickbait" scale, all links from that Page will appear lower in News Feed. The resulting dataset was then used to train a classifier algorithm that gives any headline posted on Facebook a "clickbait" score based on patterns. To figure out what was clickbait and what wasn't, a Facebook team categorized tens of thousands of real headlines by looking at whether they purposely withheld information or distorted or exaggerated the truth. "It's really aimed at the worst offenders," he says. The company has made smaller tweaks over the last year to combat clickbait, but Facebook's VP of product management Adam Mosseri tells Business Insider that this is the most dramatic change that it has launched since its initial efforts in 2014. The company says it's only targeting the most egregious examples, which intentionally leave out crucial information or mislead people, like " You'll never believe who tripped and fell on the Red Carpet." or "Apples are actually bad for you!?" or "When Facebook made THIS huge change. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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