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The Links x Sunday Long Read guide to online scams

12 tales of greed, grift and all-around shenanigans

Jul 24

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A glitch in the matrix of online shopping

May 23

Gmail will break your heart

May 30

#703: Link rot, glue pizza and cool girl shit

May 26

#710: Viral exorcists and taxidermied bats

It's way too early in the year for this shit!

Jul 20

The rise of the online news hustlers

These sketchy, anonymous middlemen have fast-become X's favorite breaking news sources

Jul 18

#709: Shadow stand-ins and survey speedrunners

PLUS: amoral self-enrichment or anti-capitalism?

Jul 13

"Wikipedia says no individual has a monopoly on truth"

Talking Wikipedia's past glory days with journalist Stephen Harrison

Jul 11

#708: Sepia brides and folk heuristics

“This is insane to me. I don’t understand.”

Jun 29

TikTok on the radio

“Internet” and “pop” culture are synonymous

Jun 27

#707: Rodent boyfriends and right-wing fantasies

How "addictive" are the feeds, really??

Jun 22

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