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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026

Why do you fall for a deepfake of celeb shilling for supplements or a shitcoin? Maybe it's because celebs *actually* shill for supplements and shitcoins, and face no consequences for helping rope us all into scams: gizmodo.com/matt-damon-c... 30/

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Matt Damon Says He Did That Dumb Crypto.com Ad Because His Water Nonprofit Was 'Down'

The "fortune favors the brave" crypto Super Bowl commercial was used to finance water micro-financing nonprofit Water.org.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026

Not just celebs - also our newspapers: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... We laugh when other people fall for newspaper articles making absurd claims 31/

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The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto (Published 2022)

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026

But after living through a time in which our most respected journalistic outlets credulously helped a dishonest government lie the world into a war that's still smoldering more than a generation later, who can be sure when to trust the papers? www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/w... 32/

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FROM THE EDITORS; The Times and Iraq (Published 2004)

New York Times editors say review of hundreds of articles written during prelude to war in Iraq and into early stages of occupation found much solid journalism and number of cases in which controversi...

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