Content mills: News you cannot trust
An easy way to spot content mill garbage – the stories have no author! Of course, some AI sites have created fake author bios with AI generated head shots.
An easy way to spot content mill garbage – the stories have no author! Of course, some AI sites have created fake author bios with AI generated head shots.
When a news story contains numerous affiliate sales links, is this really news anymore?
Facebook runs tons of scam ads – never click on a FB advertisement.
“Content mills” and “Content Generation” services are becoming the backbone of web “journalism”. 57% of newsroom jobs at newspapers went away from 2008 onwards. What does those people do now? They write stories about that one weird trick that explains why this airport did something to someone… in other words, fluffy filler click-bait articles.
The Oregonian runs a top of the page web site “report” about an author – who happens to have previously worked for the paper – coming to a local bookstore to discuss her new book. There is no new “news” in this report – it is a prominent free ad for the author and her new book. Literally, a free ad for someone that once worked for the paper.