Trending #fakenews #clickbait article: “ NO JOKE: Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Lifted…”

With over 56598 Facebook engagements counted on Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:16:53 GMT, the article titled “ NO JOKE: Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Lifted… ” (publish date Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:24:48 GMT) on the blog nytimes.com is currently trending on Facebook.
The post has a 80% chance of being clickbait and a Content Quality score of 48% .
A summary of this trending article:
““We see this as a rigorous policy,” Dr. Collins said. In October 2014, all federal funding was halted on efforts to make three viruses more dangerous: the flu virus, and those causing Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). For example, they would apply to a request to create an Ebola virus transmissible through the air, said Dr. Collins.”
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More details from the Content Quality Report :
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We found this article’s author (JR Elliott).
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This article’s publisher has been verified. Type: ‘blog’.
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This article has good (87.90%) context setting (who/when/where).
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This article has an overall Very Positive sentiment (subjective).
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This article has a 80% chance of being clickbait.
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