For our very first WIRED Guide Membership livestream, Kate Knibbs can be joined by the writer of The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Actual Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers, Carlos Barragán.
Barragán, a journalist and researcher at The New York Occasions, flew to Lagos to embed himself with a gaggle of younger, determined grifters. The account he brings again is a humorous, unhappy, enraging examine how the web can gasoline heartbreak.
On the Panel
- Kate Knibbs: senior author at WIRED, protecting prediction markets, the way forward for media, and the way AI is altering the web. She additionally leads WIRED Guide Membership.
- Carlos Barragán: reporter and researcher for The New York Occasions primarily based in Madrid. He was previously a reporter at El Confidencial earlier than receiving his MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia College. The Yahoo Boys is his first guide.
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