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StubHub, CEO hit with 'deceptive practices' class action over mass scalping

CBC 14 Jul 2026
StubHub and its CEO, Eric Baker, have been hit with a proposed $5-million class-action lawsuit in the United States over the company's ties to large-scale scalpers — connections reported by CBC News last week ... .
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Ghost Workers, Fake Productivity and Hiring Deception: New GCheck Research Reveals the Rise of the ...

Nasdaq Globe Newswire 14 Jul 2026
GCheck released findings from its “The Rise of the Shadow Workforce” report, based on a survey of 1,500 U.S. workers ... .
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AG reaches $45M nationwide settlement over Cash App deceptive practices

Montrose Press 14 Jul 2026
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced a $45 million multistate settlement with Block, Inc., the company behind the popular peer-to-peer payments app Cash App ... .
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Worcester trial: Prosecutors focus on alleged deception by defendant

The Gardner News 14 Jul 2026
WORCESTER – The city man with schizophrenia on trial for second-degree murder in a 2020 stabbing he reported to police made repeated false and incriminating statements underscoring guilt, prosecutors suggested ... June 30 ... Willie’s lawyer, David L ...
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California fruit giant hit by shocking ‘highly toxic’ accusations and deception

New York Post 14 Jul 2026
The Watsonville-based berry company is accused of consumer fraud and deceptive practices in a lawsuit filed by six people living in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Illinois.
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How to Spot and How to Stop a Liar: Hannah Arendt on Deception, Self-Deception, and ...

Brainpickings 14 Jul 2026
In a quest to illuminate the various “aspects of deception, self-deception, image-making, ideologizing, and defactualization,” she writes. ... It is this fragility that makes deception so very easy up to a point, and so tempting.
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Why this deceptive beach read is poised to become a cult favorite

The Los Angeles Times 14 Jul 2026
“Writers are always selling somebody out,” Joan Didion once wrote. She was talking about journalists, but it can be just as true of novelists ... Sonny, its hero, has checked into Sanctuary, a spendy Phoenix-area resort, for an extended stay ... About her.
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Book Review: ‘Catch the Devil,’ by Pamela Colloff

New York Times 13 Jul 2026
In “Catch the Devil,” Pamela Colloff vividly tells the true story of the con man who traded on other prisoners’ “confessions” for clemency ... .
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Hospice should offer dignity, not deception | Your Turn

VC Star 12 Jul 2026
Not long ago, a Ventura County family called Livingston for help. Their loved one was enrolled with another hospice but had not received a visit from one of its nurses in more than three weeks. Consider what those weeks must have felt like.
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Media outlets seek \u2018serious sanctions\u2019 against OpenAI as deception alleged in copyright lawsuit

Baltimore Sun 10 Jul 2026
In the suit, news organizations allege OpenAI is stealing and distorting their copyrighted works ....
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