MSN is in the Top Three most visited English language news websites in the world.
MSN.com reads several thousand smaller news websites each day - so we do not have to.
I would never know about many interesting science and engineering articles unless MSN found them for me.
MSN pays Phys.org - and every other news source - for the right to publish privately owned content on MSN.com.
In addition, every day, MSN.com pays for dozens of articles that are behind Pay Walls - articles that we can read for free (plus some Ad Bloat).
MSN like CNN are one of the fingers of the beast. Phys.org has their own 3rd party ad revenue APIs installed when you go there directly. Going directly to Phys.org helps their ranking and SEO scores. Why feed the beast? Find the reference on MSN and then go find the direct link to the original source and give them the business and hits instead of MSN.
But here is the real problem. MSN does bait and switch. While you may have posted to the article within MSN this is not what we get, when we click it they pull a bait and switch and redirect all these to their front index page instead of the article you are referencing. Now it has created a huge inconvenience because we have to go through a whole bunch of work to find that article you want us to see on MSN.
It turns into a huge chore and is not very courteous at all to the members here. Most hit that front home index page and just close it out and never read the article at all. Maybe you did not know MSN was pulling the bait and switch. Clear your cookies and then use the link you shared here. It will not go to the article, it will flip to a redirect going to the front index page instead.
By posting through MSN instead of sharing the direct original source link you are aiding and abetting their deceptive bait and switch scam on us here.
Point is you may as well not even put in an article title, may as well just title it “MSN Homepage, go search for the article yourself” because that is what actually happens to us.