Senior Research Fellow, University of Bath
Andy Rowell is a freelance writer/investigative journalist and part-time Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bath. He is currently one of the editors of the tobacco monitoring website: tobaccotactics.org.
Big Tobacco wants social media influencers to promote its products – can the platforms stop it?
Jan 24, 2020 05:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Big Tobacco likes to stay ahead of the curve it has to in order to survive. Its fundamental problem is that one in two of its long-term users die from tobacco-related diseases. To hook a new generation into addiction, it...
It was Big Tobacco, not Trump, that wrote the post-truth rule book
Apr 07, 2017 08:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
(Corrected typo on seventh paragraph) After two chaotic months as president, Donald Trump is widely credited with rewriting the political rule book. We are witnessing Trumps new era of post-fact politics, where...
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