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Website designs that try to change your behavior cross a line when they outright deceive. Fizkes/iStock via Getty Images

Dark patterns on the web are designed to manipulate you – why aren’t they all illegal?

Encountering a website that seems like it was designed to frustrate might leave you saying ‘there oughta be a law,’ but to have a case you need to show that the site tried to swindle you.
Marketing trials aren’t conducted for scientific knowledge or the benefit of patients. Ekin Kizilkaya/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Clinical trials that are actually marketing ploys targeting doctors – how seeding trials put profit over patients

Some industry-funded clinical trials show signs of being designed to market drugs rather than to test them for their safety and effectiveness. Detecting these studies remains difficult.
A ‘triangle test’ involves mixing up two of the original products with one of the new reformulation – or vice versa – to see whether taste testers notice the difference. Garrett Aitken/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images

Controversy over Reese’s ingredients reveals standard food industry practices most consumers never notice

Product reformulations are common in the food industry, and they can be done well, or poorly. Who remembers Doritos with olestra?
Swansea City co-owner Snoop Dogg ahead of the Championship match against Preston North End at the Swansea.com stadium on 24th February 2026. PA Images/Alamy

How Snoop Dogg became Swansea City’s most unlikely asset

Snoop Dogg’s Swansea City investment shows how celebrity capital can reshape lower-league football’s global reach.

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