grifters Con artist busted for scamming 35 women for birthday gifts by pretending to be in a serious relationship with each of them David Pescovitz
grifters An 8-year-old con artist ran a brilliant grift to get out of going to school over Zoom Thom Dunn
gadgets 5G conspiracy theorists are selling Faraday cages to put your router in. But there's a problem. Rob Beschizza
politics Presidential spiritual adviser Paula White leads creepy live prayer service to secure Trump election win Xeni Jardin
Business Trump's biz tweets video of pro golfer John Daly who suggests drinking 1 bottle of vodka daily will 'kill' coronavirus (IT WILL NOT) Xeni Jardin
documentaries Drew Friedman's amazing portrait of Jared Kushner for Netflix's "Dirty Money" Mark Frauenfelder
Business Fake news network stole from legit sites, flooded Google News and Alerts. Report blames NASDAQ & Thomson Reuters ex-employees. Xeni Jardin
privacy The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow
youtube Warner claims ownership over the numbers 36 and 50, and demonetizes Youtube videos that incorporate them Cory Doctorow
youtube Youtube's Content ID has become the tool of choice for grifty copyfraudsters who steal from artists Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow
authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
grifters George Zimmerman is suing Trayvon Martin's mother for $100M in order to promote a movie Thom Dunn
facebook A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar Facebook scam that targeted boomers Cory Doctorow
Business Whistleblowers out Falwell's Liberty University as a grifty, multibillion-dollar personality cult Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Schadenfreude watch: Porno copyright trolls' investors sue, say the grifters they backed stole their money (the grifters say their lawyer stole the money from them first!) Cory Doctorow
