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There is no technical trick but I don't think this constitutes clickbait. What would you suggest as a better headline?

Maybe, "slaves eavesdropped on plantation owners while operating manual ceiling fans." Then, it wouldn't be implied that something about the ceiling fans in particular helped with the eavesdropping.

Ok, we'll s/help/allow/ above to mitigate this. It's an interesting article anyway.

You’re not missing anything.

Looks like this comment was force-hidden by the mods for some reason.

Because they changed the title in response, so it's irrelevant.