Comment by chillacy

Traditional news media is also organized by engagement: an entire department is responsible for picking the home page of a newspaper and importance of each story.

The major publications do a better job at not sensationalizing everything, but this has been a problem since 1890 at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

That social media naturally tends to become a tabloid magazine may be more a reflection on readers than the editor (whether human or machine).