Google and Facebook are reportedly cracking down on so-called Kliq-bait journalism, which employs tantalizing and often-misleading headlines to target a group of five former top WWE wrestlers.

Kliq-bait content capitalizes on both the egos and insecurities of roughly five men — Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Shawn Michaels, and X-Syxx-123-Pac-Kid — who were a close-knit group of stars and backstage power-players during WWE’s so-called Attitude Era.

Examples of Kliq-bait journalism include:

Given the amount of Kliq-bait and fake news on the internet nowadays, be sure you only get your wrestling updates from Kayfabe News — the last bastion of reliable online wrestling journalism.

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