As Rob pointed out, balanced articles are normally more boring to read. So we shouldn’t be surprised that they are relatively less popular. Popularity is a (very) poor indicator of persuasiveness, because the popularity of an article giving a viewpoint is mostly a function of people who hold the same view holding it up and saying ‘Look at this. It argues for my view!’. Confirmation is not persuasion.
This is especially true if we’re going to measure popularity by ‘number of shares’ or ‘number of upvotes’.
As Rob pointed out, balanced articles are normally more boring to read. So we shouldn’t be surprised that they are relatively less popular. Popularity is a (very) poor indicator of persuasiveness, because the popularity of an article giving a viewpoint is mostly a function of people who hold the same view holding it up and saying ‘Look at this. It argues for my view!’. Confirmation is not persuasion.
This is especially true if we’re going to measure popularity by ‘number of shares’ or ‘number of upvotes’.