On: A writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas ...

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One way to get useful signal is to ask oneself "Why might $SOURCE want me to read this particular $CLICKBAIT?"

(of course, one then gets into the rabbit hole of source attribution, a topic already known to be difficult even before the internet era)

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39093409