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Social media users probably won’t read beyond this headline, researchers say (www.psu.edu)
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A new study of 35 million news links circulated on Facebook reports that more than 75% of the time they were shared without the link being clicked upon and read

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[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This headline is barely even about the article. The blurb provides enough context to know what the content is about atleast.

But apparently most links on social media don't even do that.

It's accidentally proving its point, much like that meme where the paper on the inaccessibility of science is being denied by a paywall.