For ours very much first WIRED Book Club livestream, Kate Knibbs will be joined by the author of The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigerian Romance ScammersCarlos Barragán.
Barragán, journalist and researcher in New York Timeshe flew to Lagos to join a group of desperate youths. The account he gives back is funny, sad, and infuriating about how the internet can fuel grief.
On the Panel
- Kate Knibbs: senior writer at WIRED, covering prediction markets, the future of media, and how AI is changing the Internet. He also leads WIRED Book Club.
- Carlos Barragan: writer and researcher for The New York Times based in Madrid. He was previously a reporter at El Confidencial before receiving his MFA in non-fiction from Columbia University. Yahoo Boys is his first book.
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