I saw the same thing happen twice already.

Once with Lugi and the other with Tesla. Websites see the traffic that their news bring, so they dedicate 55% and more of their website to cover them in the most dumb way possible.

How many articles do we need about Tesla cars being destroyed or vandalized? At a certain stage it becomes silly and more importantly, the websites covering them is a capitalist websites who would not give a shit about this topics if it did not bring them money.

My question is not about the websites, my question is about the people who read and share their articles, why do they do that? How do they fell for this over and over?

Just to be clear, I am not talking about the articles who deliver new info about the event, I am specifically talking about the article that keep recycling the same info without adding anything new or even offer a new analysis. (The Verge for example)

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    5·
    2 days ago

    Every article has the potential to be the first one someone is seeing. I think your post has within it an assumption that the same people read all the articles over and over. Even if some large percentage of the people reading it have already read previous articles there is some value in knowing “this is still happening, wow” in regard to Tesla, or “so that’s the stage of the case against Luigi were at now, ok.”

    In a way it’s like finding new trees in the same forest.

    I crossed out the end because half way through writing I forgot you weren’t talking about new information lol

  • CapriciousDay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    How many articles do we need about Tesla cars being destroyed or vandalized?

    Well we need something to break up all the bad news

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    2 days ago

    This is why I click on every article about eggs I see. (And any other topic that I personally feel needs to be louder)

  • bad_news
    8·
    2 days ago

    Based on Luigi it seems more an effort at propaganda than profit. It wasn’t loss of interest that ended the infinite sea of Luigi pieces, it was the fact that the public was on his side and was unmoved by their attempt to Emmanual Goldstein him, so they put the story down the memory hole as that was the best they could do to serve their overlords.