I keep seeing headlines for fake news stories (No, real fake news, not fake fake news) that read: "(So-and-so) Finally Confirms the Rumors!" These are so silly as clickbait, because if the rumors are confirmed, then it's no fun to spread them anymore as rumors because they become facts, and we're in the age where facts don't matter, as the news keeps telling us.* They should have realized that before attempting this type of clickbait ruse.
* You'd think the news people wouldn't keep trying to convince us that facts don't matter, because if facts don't matter, then why would anyone watch the news? But as it happens, the news doesn't really give us many facts anymore anyway, having turned almost exclusively to partisan propaganda nowadays.
