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Pilita Clark

The truly worrying thing about the Coldplay concert scandal

Coldplay-gate doubtless caused hurt for those at the centre of it, and their families. But the hoaxes it spurred look relatively harmless compared with the plethora of online scams that go unchecked.

“You know what’s really interesting about this Coldplay couple story?” a colleague said to me the other day.

I very much doubted I would know. We were speaking almost a week after Andy Byron, the chief executive of tech company Astronomer, was caught on a giant video screen at a Coldplay concert in Boston with his arms wrapped around a woman who was a) his head of HR and b) not his wife.

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Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on modern corporate life, as well as features and other articles.

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