Counterfeit Big fines for counterfeit goods on Chinese e-commerce sites from 1 Jan 2019, up to 2m yuan (£228k, $295k). So fakers now hawking their wares on social messaging networks as ‘friend-to-friend’. Global trade in bogus goods 2013: £355bn, 2022 est: £764bn. China and Hong…
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Optimist Unusual business model, based on optimistic faith in the community to do good, can work: Wikipedia is 5th most popular website on earth. New global platform for multilingual, quality news soon. Journalists/volunteers will publish facts. Supporters donate, so no ads, no paywalls. Measures to stop fake news, spread by eager/unwitting volunteers, have failed. Fight…
Scam Web scammers don’t need to guess who’ll fall for their cons. Social media’s trove of user data + algorithms target their fake ‘news’ & ‘endorsed’ ads across multiple platforms – by age, interests, location or IP address – based on previous clicks on their links Guessed the Word? Series 22 (8/8) [pic:…