Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source
The only solution is not to engage with emotionally manipulative content.  Even, for example, with nerdy YouTube channels that I love, if a video shows up in my feed:<p>* with a title $villain $unflattering_third_person_present_verb $something<p>* with the format $hero $flattering_third_person_present_verb $something<p>* a person in the thumbnail making an o-face[1] for any reason<p>Then I simply don’t click on it.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/zme97a/inside-the-strange-world-of-youtube-thumbnails" rel="nofollow">https://www.vice.com/en/article/zme97a/inside-the-strange-wo...</a>