the use of social media to bait for engagement. I suppose it is ages old really, “tune in next week for another exciting episode” and all that. This trend seems more akin to ‘content baiting’ than to ‘click baiting’; here I chase down a reference for a quote from Bernard de Gordon

An image circulated today shows the NSDAP, the Nazis, turning their backs in the Reichstag (the German interwar parliament) as a demonstration of contempt for other parties. News today shows the UK’s Brexit Party members performing the same move in the EU parliament.