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We have too The first WIRED Book Club livestream, book author Kate Knibbs will join Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception and the Real Lives of Romance Scammers in NigeriaCarlos Barragán.

Barragán, journalist and researcher New York Timeshe flew to Lagos to join himself with a group of desperate young fraudsters. The account he brought back is a funny, sad, and angry read about how the internet can fuel heartbreak.

On the plate

• Kate Nibbs: A senior writer at WIRED, he covers prediction markets, the future of media, and how artificial intelligence is changing the internet. She also leads the WIRED Book Club.
• Carlos Barragán: Correspondent and researcher for the Madrid-based New York Times. He was previously a reporter at El Confidencial before earning a master’s degree in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. Yahoo Boys It is his first book.

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Post your burning questions about the book in the comments section below. The event will be broadcast here, so bookmark this page and mark your calendar to come back July 16 at 12pm ET/9am PT.

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In the meantime, check out previous live streams on how AI is changing work, big tech, the military, and more.