Negativity drives online news consumption

Online news consumption is driven by negative stories. People are drawn to the drama and controversy of negative news, which can be more engaging than positive stories. This can lead to a cycle of negativity, as people become more and more interested in the darker side of news.

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HanaBothWays

“If it bleeds, it leads” is older than the internet, isn’t it?

musicbufff

Next you’ll tell me “Water found to be 100% wetter than sand”

jedre

No it doesn’t. Fuck you!

jh937hfiu3hrhv9

Good news has been tried and it is not profitable.

baddfingerz1968

Duhhhh. Started long before the Net was born.

meatismoydelicious

We’re excited for society to collapse because most of the public are convinced that it’s the only way to rebuild.

Looluee

Breaking news: water is wet!

unfettered_logic

Yeah no shit.

TexButtery

People wonder why I block the comments section of pretty much everything, especially news, and never read it on social media.

peadith

Well if you can find some good news to print I’ll try it.

jackparadise1

It is hard when there is so much out there.

EmbarrassedHelp

I wonder how much this plays into some of the negative effects of social media?

icky_boo

No.. DUH….

Humans love a good train wreck or bad news so we can feel better about our own lives.

There was a report on how media (especially Fox and Murdoch media) keeps people engaged to watch longer so they can sell more ads. The simplest way to keep people engaged is anger which is the most primal of all emotions and easiest to set off. Hence why they always have stories and lies to keep viewership triggered.

This is why Tucker is so popular

thechocobarissalty

Great, lets upvote 100 articles about Trump/Biden to the front page.

JKJ420

Also reddit participation. We are all guilty of it. Let’s try to have a day when we comment by the rule: if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

masbowls

This makes me mad

DanteJazz

It always did. We need to break up the news monopoly is it on 90% of all news media in the US.

DastyVillainpotra

I’ve never seen it, but the movie “Network” is a very eerily prescient piece of entertainment that talks about this very subject and it’s worth a watch.

BishopLeonardBrennan

Welcome to [FucksNews.com](https://FucksNews.com) where everything is race ,Gender,woke,Political Baiting

KnudsonRegime

Stupid liberal media amplifying the woke “research” of elitist scientists to sow division among the public so they can further their socialist agenda. Tucker Carlson has a great show on this just the other night. Liberals only try to look happy so they can stab you in the back with their 5G vaccine to try and cause an abortion.

BeefSwellinton

What a meta article.

getmybehindsatan

No it doesn’t, I can’t believe you’d post something so wrong.

/s

WhoopsieDZY

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