57. How Social Media Pressures Young Entrepreneurs to Embrace Unethical Business Practices

57. How Social Media Pressures Young Entrepreneurs to Embrace Unethical Business Practices In Silicon Valley, startup culture begins to normalise unethical business practices such as manipulating share price by posting unfounded claims on social media, promoted through industry blogs and forums, and resulting in price spikes used by insiders for trading their shares. A young…

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52. How a Japanese business owner panics amidst rumour-driven bank run

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29. How a Bogus Treatment Spreads in Healthville

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