For our very First of all WIRED Book Club livestream, Kate Knibbs will be joined by the author of The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance ScammersCarlos Barragan.
Barragán, journalist and researcher at The New York Timesflew to Lagos to join a group of desperate young crooks. His story is a funny, sad, and infuriating read 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. She also directs WIRED Book Club.
- Carlos Barragan: journalist and researcher for the New York Times based in Madrid. He was previously a journalist at El Confidencial before receiving his MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. The Yahoo Boys is his first book.
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