For our very WIRED Book Club’s first live broadcast, Kate Knibbs will be accompanied by the author of The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception and the Real Life of Nigeria’s Romance ScammersCarlos Barragan.

Barragán, journalist and researcher of the The New York TimesHe flew to Lagos to join a group of desperate young scammers. The story he brings is a funny, sad and infuriating read about how the Internet can fuel anguish.

on the panel

• Kate Knibbs: senior writer at WIRED, covering prediction markets, the future of media and how AI is changing the internet. She also runs the WIRED book club.
• Carlos Barragan: reporter and researcher for The New York Times based in Madrid. He was previously a reporter for El Confidencial before receiving his master’s degree in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. The yahoo guys It is his first book.

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