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ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI. Documents showed that internally, Meta was hesitant to abruptly remove accounts, even those considered some of the “scammiest scammers,” out of concern that a drop in …
A family says their mother was conned out of her life savings and even sold her condo for a scammer using deepfake videos to pose as a General Hospital star.
A widespread social media scam involving fraudsters impersonating actor Johnny Depp has defrauded elderly Americans of millions of dollars, according to FTC complaints obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Gizmodo reports that the FTC has received 197 complaints …
Biden inks billion-dollar climate deals to foil Trump rollbacks One of President Joe Biden’s signature climate initiatives is on the clock. The Department of Energy is racing to close $25 billion in pending loans to businesses building major clean energy …
SYLVANIA TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A Sylvania Township man is having trouble sleeping after being scammed out of his life savings. Rama Bhamidipati, a software engineer, came to the U.S. from India on a work visa 10 years ago. He dreamed …
A financial advice columnist for New York Magazine admitted she was scammed out of $50,000 by a con man who claimed to be a CIA agent and ordered her to stuff a shoe box full of cash and hand it …