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Clickbait (headlines) make use of misleading titles that hide critical information from or exaggerate the content on the landing target pages to entice clicks. As clickbaits often use eye-catching wording to attract viewers, target contents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Xinyue Cao , Thai Le , Jason , Zhang

Online media outlets, in a bid to expand their reach and subsequently increase revenue through ad monetisation, have begun adopting clickbait techniques to lure readers to click on articles. The article fails to fulfill the promise made by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Vaibhav Kumar , Dhruv Khattar , Siddhartha Gairola , Yash Kumar Lal , Vasudeva Varma

This paper presents the results and conclusions of our participation in the Clickbait Challenge 2017 on automatic clickbait detection in social media. We first describe linguistically-infused neural network models and identify informative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Maria Glenski , Ellyn Ayton , Dustin Arendt , Svitlana Volkova

Online news media sometimes use misleading headlines to lure users to open the news article. These catchy headlines that attract users but disappointed them at the end, are called Clickbaits. Because of the importance of automatic clickbait…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Amin Omidvar , Hui Jiang , Aijun An

Clickbaits are online articles with deliberately designed misleading titles for luring more and more readers to open the intended web page. Clickbaits are used to tempted visitors to click on a particular link either to monetize the landing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Abinash Pujahari , Dilip Singh Sisodia

Online content publishers often use catchy headlines for their articles in order to attract users to their websites. These headlines, popularly known as clickbaits, exploit a user's curiosity gap and lure them to click on links that often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Ankesh Anand , Tanmoy Chakraborty , Noseong Park

In this paper, we propose an approach for the detection of clickbait posts in online social media (OSM). Clickbait posts are short catchy phrases that attract a user's attention to click to an article. The approach is based on a machine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Aviad Elyashar , Jorge Bendahan , Rami Puzis

In this era of digitisation, news reader tend to read news online. This is because, online media instantly provides access to a wide variety of content. Thus, people don't have to wait for tomorrow's newspaper to know what's happening…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sohom Ghosh

Clickbait headlines degrade the quality of online information and undermine user trust. We present a hybrid approach to clickbait detection that combines transformer-based text embeddings with linguistically motivated informativeness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Wojciech Michaluk , Tymoteusz Urban , Mateusz Kubita , Soveatin Kuntur , Anna Wroblewska

In order to expand their reach and increase website ad revenue, media outlets have started using clickbait techniques to lure readers to click on articles on their digital platform. Having successfully enticed the user to open the article,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Vaibhav Kumar , Mrinal Dhar , Dhruv Khattar , Yash Kumar Lal , Abhimanshu Mishra , Manish Shrivastava , Vasudeva Varma

Clickbait is deceptive text that can manipulate web browsing, creating an information gap between a link and target page that literally baits a user into clicking. Clickbait detection continues to be well studied, but analyses of clickbait…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Austin McCutcheon , Chris Brogly

The purpose of a clickbait is to make a link so appealing that people click on it. However, the content of such articles is often not related to the title, shows poor quality, and at the end leaves the reader unsatisfied. To help the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Alexey Grigorev

Clickbaits are surprising social posts or deceptive news headlines that attempt to lure users for more clicks, which have posted at unprecedented rates for more profit or commercial revenue. The spread of clickbait has significant negative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Haoxiang Deng , Yi Zhu , Ye Wang , Jipeng Qiang , Yunhao Yuan , Yun Li , Runmei Zhang

Clickbaits are catchy headlines that are frequently used by social media outlets in order to allure its viewers into clicking them and thus leading them to dubious content. Such venal schemes thrive on exploiting the curiosity of naive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Amrith Rajagopal Setlur

We revise the definition of clickbait, which lacks current consensus, and argue that the creation of a curiosity gap is the key concept that distinguishes clickbait from other related phenomena such as sensationalism and headlines that do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Gabriel Mordecki , Guillermo Moncecchi , Javier Couto

We propose a lightweight hybrid approach to clickbait detection that combines OpenAI semantic embeddings with six compact heuristic features capturing stylistic and informational cues. To improve efficiency, embeddings are reduced using PCA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Soveatin Kuntur , Panggih Kusuma Ningrum , Anna Wróblewska , Maria Ganzha , Marcin Paprzycki

Most of the online news media outlets rely heavily on the revenues generated from the clicks made by their readers, and due to the presence of numerous such outlets, they need to compete with each other for reader attention. To attract the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Abhijnan Chakraborty , Bhargavi Paranjape , Sourya Kakarla , Niloy Ganguly

The topic of clickbait has garnered lot of attention since the advent of social media. Meriam-Webster defines Clickbait as something designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Adil Rajput

The proliferation of clickbait headlines poses significant challenges to the credibility of information and user trust in digital media. While recent advances in machine learning have improved the detection of manipulative content, the lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Lihi Nofar , Tomer Portal , Aviv Elbaz , Alexander Apartsin , Yehudit Aperstein

Clickbait, which aims to induce users with some surprising and even thrilling headlines for increasing click-through rates, permeates almost all online content publishers, such as news portals and social media. Recently, Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Han Wang , Yi Zhu , Ye Wang , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Jipeng Qiang
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