Clickbait articles
For this assignment, we were instructed to write about two clickbait articles. This was inspired by the movie, which is based on a true story, called Richard Jewell. Richard Jewell found a bomb in Atlanta in 1996 and was falsely accused by the media of planting it. Through this movie, we were able to learn about responsible reporting and how false reports and inaccurate facts can ruin people’s lives. To complete this assignment, I checked out my favorite clickbait, fake news website, the Sun. The Sun is a tabloid that reports on anything and everything including, celebrity gossip, current events, and sports. The first article I found was titled “MINI MARTIANS AI predicts what children born on Mars will look like – and the results are creepily realistic and unsettling.” And the second one was “GRUESOME END Ancient mummified child was drugged with psychedelics before ritual sacrifice to gods, scientists reveal.” Both of these articles have very sensational and misleadi...