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Updated September 6, 2016, 6:35 PM Click bait has joined the cacophony of 21st-century life and made it worse. But those who say that sensationalist teases have always been with us are right.

Logo of the ‘Hejt za klikbejt’ Facebook page. Photo: Facebook/Hejt za klikbejt A Facebook page ‘Hejt za klikbejt’ (‘Hate for Click-Bait’), explaining the true nature of articles behind ...

Now the social network says it’s trying to crack down on exactly those kinds of headlines, which it describe as “click-bait” because the teasers are aimed at encouraging people to click ...

Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith recently wrote that his site doesn’t traffic in “click bait” because the term applies to “tempting, vacuous ‘curiosity gap’ headlines” that mislead readers.