Scammers Are Taking Over The Internet Ft. Gabrielle Bluestone

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sara and Danny are back with a fascinating conversation with journalist Gabrielle Bluestone about her new book “HYPE: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet―and Why We're Following.” They go all into how social media has ushered in a new type of scams and grifts into our lives and what implications influencers can have on our world at large. They also discuss Gabrielle’s involvement in the FYRE documentary and how that experience informed the book and what it shows us about where we are heading. You can follow her on Twitter @g_bluestone and her book is out April 6th! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	someone gets hurt.
0:45.2	Welcome back guys to a very special episode of not another true crime podcast. I'm Sarah
0:50.2	Levine.
0:51.2	I'm Danny Murphy. And we don't matter today, though, Sarah. I'm not even going to
0:54.6	get into this because I don't care about us. I want you to grab wine, though, for the
0:59.3	record.
1:00.3	That's true. We still want you to have a glass of wine and spend some time with us and
1:02.8	talk about crime and talk about heights and talk about, I think, what is all of our listeners
1:07.1	maybe like their favorite types of crimes with our the scams, the grifting, the craziness
1:13.1	that you watch unfold in real time. And then you look back and you're like, oh, I was like
1:18.3	a part of like scam history there. Yeah, we're so excited. We have a really special guest,
1:26.0	journalist, executive producer of the Netflix documentary fire and author of hype out April
1:32.4	6th. It's Gabrielle Bluestone. Hey guys.
1:36.2	Yes, she's also a dog mom too. So if you have anybody who owns a French bulldog, you'll
1:39.5	bond with her on a deeper level.
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