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by ars 1110 days ago
Since when does bbc run ads pretending to be articles?

This is an ad for cdi.
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kobayashi 1110 days ago
Seems like a submarine. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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lode 1110 days ago
They also regularly fall for PR bullshit 'articles' from What3Words:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=what3words&d=NEWS_GNL

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dewey 1110 days ago
As this is not a 1:1 press release, it seems not much different then them reporting on other tech news ("apple vision pro site:bbc.co.uk").
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chinathrow 1110 days ago
Why don't they have a requirement to disclose it?
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re-actor 1110 days ago
From the very very start
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