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)
If the same event has multiple versions of the same story on the same site, that would be lazy but most likely intended to draw in different readers by being presented in different formats.
Are the articles recycling the same wording for the body but with different titles?
Are you sure they aren’t about different incidents with similar events?
Are they expanding on a prior story with new information, but reusing prior article text to show the ongoing trend?
Articles that I can think of from major news sites tend to put out new articles involving ongoing events with the new stuff at the top and then cut and paste from the previous article for context. Kind of lazy, but also providing consistency for a developing story.