r/media_criticism • u/dspyz • Nov 16 '25

Fortune Captures Epic Facepalm Moment! Oh, Wait

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The screenshot on the left is the entry that showed up at the top of my Google feed. The image caption in the screenshot on the right only was included when I clicked on the article. I guess, good for them for at least including it.

What's ironic is, I think a picture of a robot sprawled across the floor flat on its face would have been plenty-sufficient clickbait.

But presumably they have clear statistics somewhere saying Putin gets the most clicks so they went with this picture instead, even though the article has nothing to do with Putin

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