Steve Bartlett as a case study in how misinformation is popular & lucrative- clickbait -> more listeners -> more advertising revenue. It’s a sound business model if you don’t care about evidence or data. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - ThreadSky

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profdevisridhar.bsky.social • 166 days ago

Steve Bartlett as a case study in how misinformation is popular & lucrative- clickbait -> more listeners -> more advertising revenue. It’s a sound business model if you don’t care about evidence or data.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpz163vg2o

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jetraven.bsky.social•163 days ago

respara-jb.bsky.social•166 days ago

With The Diary of a CEO sharing the acronym DOAC with Direct Oral Anticoagulants, the irony writes itself—one thins your blood, the other your grasp on credible medical information.

paoloalessandro.bsky.social•161 days ago

I think he is a dubious person who is susceptible to his own boosterism.

fristotle.bsky.social•166 days ago

Another internet contrepreneur.

cxjo.bsky.social•166 days ago

📌

sarahcalvert.bsky.social•163 days ago

Obviously there needs to be robust regulation as someone with such a large following can potentially impact public health.

drunkenbakers.bsky.social•166 days ago

A deeply self promoting, small business owner, who is more successful at being 'famous' than he was as a businessman. Now saying Malhotras ideas shouldn't be censored and that the truth is in the middle! He knows these frauds have big followings so uses it to boost views and money. Terrible

a2t8.bsky.social•166 days ago

It’s not about not caring about the data. It’s systematic disinformation warfare for profit and political gain. What’s fascinating is the inability of western governments to respond because of freedom of speech concerns and because regulators have been captured by the social media companies

obezyanka.bsky.social•166 days ago

Unfollowed him on LinkedIn. No time for promoters of conspiracy theories and lies.

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