One minute you’re a married middle-aged French woman living your life and minding your own business. The next minute, Brad Pitt is reaching out to you, he’s in the hospital, he needs money because of his divorce and you’re his only hope.
The only problem is, obviously, it’s not Brad Pitt reaching out. He’s not sending you pictures from the hospital, and you’re not falling in love with the real Hollywood actor.
Unfortunately, you’ve been scammed, and now you’ve lost your husband and more than $850,000. That happened recently to a woman named Anne, according to reports coming out of France.
The woman, according to France 24, believed she was in a romantic relationship with the 61-year-old actor, who, while we’re talking about him should mention, still has his fastball. This unfortunate story could serve as an example of that.
Anyway, back to Anne here. She reportedly divorced her husband and sent scammers who used AI-generated images of Brad Pitt 830,000 euros or more than $850,000. […]
A French woman reportedly divorced her millionaire husband then was scammed out of $850k by a fake Brad Pitt.
The scammer used AI-generated photos and claimed he was undergoing cancer treatment and couldn’t access his money due to his divorce. She realized the truth upon seeing… pic.twitter.com/cG5KFa6ojr
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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