EP. 34 — The Feminist Fraud with Marie Faustin

This week Marie Faustin is on the pod to talk the intersectional feminist who lies, cheats, and steals, but at least is helping close the wage gap. Plus the influencer who tried to trick the internet into thinking he was two people at once? It didn’t work out. Research by Sharilyn Vera.

SOURCES: https://www.topic.com/the-grifters-10-stories-of-scams-and-scammers

https://www.thelily.com/she-made-a-career-out-of-scamming-writers-these-are-the-women-of-color-who-were-her-victims/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thecut.com/amp/2018/07/literary-scammer-story-malcolm-gladwell-lie.html

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-ca-jc-anna-march/

https://www.thecut.com/2020/01/paul-zimmer-or-troy-becker-is-the-craziest-influencer-scam.html

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