There’s a difference between clickbait and misleading though. It probably often overlaps, but headlines can be clickbait without being misleading: “Doctors hate this one trick” isn’t really giving you wrong information. “Signal Denies Existence of Zero-Day Vulnerability on the App”, however, strongly implies that Signal has a security flat that it stubbornly refuses to fix, which harms the reputation of the App and isn’t at all true if you read the actual article.

That’s the main issue I’m having with these headlines. They‘re not just annoying, they’re spreading misinformation.