ANTON HARBER: The snake-oiled social media’s bad faith and big profits
Many more Youngs need to walk away to counter dangerous disinformation
10 February 2022 - 14:09
It wasn’t long ago that anyone could sell any “medication” and promise it would cure anything. Snake oil salesmen wandered around the countryside spreading fear about sickness and making money from selling fake cures. People died as a result.
Over the last 100 years or so we developed ways of controlling this, such as the testing of medicines, restrictions on false advertising and peer-control of powerful professions such as doctors and chemists...
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