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b_b  ·  2318 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Social and media will split

That's great! I do fear that only blockbuster articles are likely to get read that way, but I suppose that's no different from what social media now offers. Does the machine learning then offer you stuff from, say, the science or business section, and not just front page material?

    They add their own clickbait-ish titles (it could be worse) because it really does get more people to read more articles.

Sure does. Read the Post since Bezos bought it? Their reporting is fantastic, but their titles are now stuff like, "6 takeaways from the Alabama election". Horrible. I'll put up with it so long as the content is good, because I get what they're trying to do.