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Lair of Liars 0

Julie Kim explores how “social” media enables frauds and scammers. An example:

There was also the male poet who entered and won a major writing prize by pretending to be an Asian woman with his pseudonym Yi-Fen Chou, stolen from a high school classmate’s name.

More examples at the link.

Aside:

It has always puzzled me–I know I’ve said this before–that persons will believe stuff they read on a computer screen when they wouldn’t believe the same stuff if it happened right before their lying’ eyse.

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