fraud The "Reputation Management" industry continues to depend on forged legal documents Cory Doctorow

Business When "reputation management" becomes perjury, forgery and fraud against America's federal courts Cory Doctorow

police brutality The cop who killed George Floyd has a long record of police brutality Thom Dunn

Business Trump threatens GOP control of Twitter, Facebook: 'We will strongly regulate, or close them down' Xeni Jardin

Reviews Recommended reading: The Forgery of Venus, by Michael Gruber Mark Frauenfelder

crime Florida man impersonated state prosecutors in order to drop charges against himself David Pescovitz

Business Newton's Principia Mathematica, George Washington's journal: archivist stole $8m worth of rare books from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library Cory Doctorow

uk Opendemocracy: the Libdems tried to censor our article about their sale of voter data, then used a forged email to intimidate us Cory Doctorow

money Counterfeiter caught after he tossed test prints in his trash David Pescovitz

Funny Gentleman gives fake name to police even though real name is tattooed on his neck David Pescovitz

happy mutants Banksy's art authentication system displays top-notch cryptographic nous Cory Doctorow

security Bad security design made it easy to spy on video from Ring doorbells and insert fake video into their feeds Cory Doctorow

fraud Learn how to spot a fake painting from art forgery experts Rusty Blazenhoff

Business Britain is a money-launderer's paradise, Part LXII Cory Doctorow

surveillance Cops have a secret, unaccountable system for tracking you by your cellphone, and they abuse it like crazy Cory Doctorow

deepfakes An algorithm for detecting face-swaps in videos Clive Thompson

uspoli Journalists receive forged lawsuit docs hoaxing a nonexistent sexual harassment suit against Chuck Schumer Cory Doctorow

fake news KGB killed JFK, celebrity weight battles, and Bigfoot sightings in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan