Submit Your Questions: Inside the Fraudulent World of Online Dating

Ours of course first WIRED Book Club livestream, Kate Knibbs will be joined by author of The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigerian Romance ActorsCarlos Barragán.

Barragán, journalist and researcher at The New York Timeshe flew to Lagos to join a group of young, disaffected people. What he’s come back with is a funny, sad, infuriating read about how the internet can cause heartbreak.

On the team

• Kate Knibbs: senior writer at WIRED, covering prediction markets, the future of media, and how AI is changing the Internet. They also lead WIRED Book Club.
• Carlos Barragan: journalist and researcher for The New York Times based in Madrid. He was previously a reporter at El Confidencial before earning his MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University. The Yahoo Boys and his first book.

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