Your competition at this point in the Netflix dating show’s run will include 10 seasons’ worth of cheaters and liars, clout chasers and schmoozers and players.
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Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
Part of the reason why liars try to control their body language may be because playing false requires more cognitive effort, says Sharon Leal, a senior research fellow at the University of Portsmouth in England, who studies deception detection.
Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans.
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Big Think,
Big Think,
10 Feb. 2026
First up was Ben Shapiro, who described Tucker Carlson and others as grifters and charlatans, guilty of misleading their audiences with falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
If the issues in high school sports are ever going to be fixed, then cheaters need to be exposed.
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Eric Sondheimer
Columnist
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
Your competition at this point in the Netflix dating show’s run will include 10 seasons’ worth of cheaters and liars, clout chasers and schmoozers and players.
Once recruited, victims were allegedly forced to conduct romance scams, fake cryptocurrency investment schemes and other online frauds targeting victims abroad.
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Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
16 Feb. 2026
The frauds have grown nearly in lockstep with the growth of the industry.
The world is full of bad actors—cheats, liars, tyrants, sickos—who are, ultimately, mere human beings; at least, this was how rationality would have it.
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