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"The site also has come under criticism for issues related to sensationalism, hyperbole, misleading or naive headlines, and even sexism to attract readers."

To that list could be added a growing habit of their years-old articles trivially 'updated' and republished as "news", apparently to get web traffic by appearing in Google News Science articles. JohndanR (talk) 14:52, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]