MSN, baked into edge & win 11 which i have to use at work…

i was reading some garbage click thru article about god-only-knows… one of those slideshow carousel type of “articles” on MSN that allows them to inflate the number of clicks by 10x. i think the article headline was about a judicial complaint that took 8 slides to reveal it wasn’t anything.

anyway, i get to the “end” and inadvertently click the next button… which takes me to the linked “article”.

what the fuck even is this shit? its like a completely made up story with GenAI photos and the comments is already populating with people accepting it at face value.

the news ecosystem is remarkably worse than i had assumed.