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"CONNECTING THE WORLD" (S1; EP 7)

Online scams may be as old as the internet, but Facebook has made it easier for scammers to victimize users longing for connection, and to draft unwitting U.S. service members into their schemes. Neither the world’s largest social network nor the world’s most powerful military seem to be able to stop it.

In this special one-hour episode of “The Weekly,” a New York Times journalist tries to track down some of these digital con artists, and explore their motivations.

“The Weekly” is a TV series from The New York Times that debuted in June 2019. The program aired on Sundays at 10 p.m. on FX, and is currently streaming on HULU.