This is part of what's on Jim's substack site that you're not allowed to read...22 Oct 2023 12:36
"Most people now obtain their information from the Internet and a new world has opened up in which investors can interact. The earliest forms of electronic investor communication were the bulletin boards, of which the main ones in the UK are ADVFN and LSE. Now, if everything is in balance, they should display alternative views and provide investors with a reasonable perspective of other investors’ opinions. Unfortunately, dissenting, and often truthful, voices tend to be suppressed, either by being shouted down by other posters, perhaps just other accounts, or by being removed by the administrators or moderators due to complaints from those other posters and/or accounts. Sometimes, the companies being discussed are PR clients of the platform, in which case it is possible that the administrators and moderators are less than independent. Commentary on these boards essentially is worthless, but it does have a huge impact on many investors. Much is blatant PR often being posted by the company or those retained either directly or indirectly. A significant part of the information being posted is deliberately false or misleading and often there is little or no counter to that."