An MSN article titled “Scientists discovered a 2000-year-old glassified human brain near Pompeii that was so well preserved they could perform a neurological study” consists of several slides we must click through in order to read. This is a common trick to get more “clicks” and, hence, more money.
Here’s the leading photo, the one readers see on MSN’s main page, which they must click to open the article:
I did post a comment on the article:
The AI moderator would not allow the first version of my comment, which had the word “scientist” in scare-quotes. I’m predicting that the newer version of my comment will be removed within a day.
Here’s one of the ads from the click-through article:
Full disclosure: The article does show White people, and even a handful of White men, but the primary goal seems to be portraying black men in central roles.
This slide illustrates the poor quality that passes for “journalism” today:
Can somebody explain that first line? Also, the bad punctuation implies that writing is being outsourced to people whose English is limited.
Here’s another slide:
One of the slides shows a famous artists rendition of the Roman Senate:
Let’s zoom in on a portion of this image, and compare it to another version, found elsewhere on the Internet:
There were darker-skinned people in actual Roman art, but this looks like an attempt to make it look like there were black Africans in the Roman Senate.
Here’s yet another full version of the painting. It’s from Goodreads:
In two words, this is how I would describe MSN: Cheap Propaganda.
