It’s a fairly standard sales tactic to encourage a degree of urgency so your visitor turns into a customer but when deployed on a large scale, it can shape customer buying habits for the worse.
There’s a lot of talk about ‘fake news’. Actually, there’s far too much talk about it – so much so that the phrase is rapidly losing what little meaning it once had. However, I don’t believe ‘fake news’ is the problem – it is the symptom. In fact, it’s several symptoms of several problems.