Definitions
Online content with sensational headlines designed mainly to attract clicks.
Word origin
From click + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response).
Used in a sentence
“Fairfax's sites are renowned for what is sometimes called ‘clickbait’: headlines written to beguile passing eyeballs but which obscure nondescript or irrelevant stories.”
“"His careful lawyerly writing would be out of fashion now", wrote one commenter after Kettle's piece. "It wasn't clickbait".”
“In August 2016, leaders at Facebook announced a plan to identify and limit clickbait, because the Facebook newsfeed goal is to “show people the stories most relevant to them.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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