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February 14, 2026
Is it love? Or is it an AI romance scam? — vox.com
Happy Valentine’s Day. Don’t let romance scams — which ramp up around the holiday and are at an all-time high — break your heart. These scams cost Americans $3 billion last year alone. That’s almost certainly an undercount, given victims’ particular
A widow lost $39,000, her house, and six dogs after a scam. ‘If the story wasn’t so horrible, people wouldn’t pay attention’ — fortune.com
It started after a teenage girl sent a panicked email about getting her period while at school. That desperate SOS—one every woman knows well—went from England to Pennsylvania, where Kate Kleinert, a widow who lived alone outside Philadelphia with her six
The Internet’s Nihilism Crisis — theatlantic.com
More and more, it seems, I pull to refresh a feed or open up a new browser tab and encounter something that makes me feel as if I’ve sustained a head injury. Recently, the culprit has often been the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security
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