For our very first WIRED Book Club livestream, Kate Knibbs might be joined through the writer of The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers, Carlos Barragán.
Barragán, a journalist and researcher at The New York Instances, 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 gas heartbreak.
At the Panel
- Kate Knibbs: senior author at WIRED, overlaying prediction markets, the way forward for media, and the way AI is converting the web. She additionally leads WIRED Book Club.
- Carlos Barragán: reporter and researcher for The New York Instances based totally in Madrid. He used to be previously a reporter at El Confidencial ahead of receiving his MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia College. The Yahoo Boys is his first e-book.
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