Lana Swartz
@lanalanalana.bsky.social
New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA
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Lana Swartz
@lanalanalana.bsky.social
· May 21
📣 Just published! This primer by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson maps what we know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/scam...
AI is a force multiplier for scams, and there is SO much we' urgentlyneed to learn in order to know what to do about it
Bill Maurer on how stablecoins represent a "contemporary manifestation of patterns that have recurred throughout history when elites adopt new money forms to assert their authority, gather followers and manage their own political positions" duckbucks.com/a/stablecoin...
What a 19th-century theory of money reveals about Trump's stablecoin law Duckbucks
The GENIUS Act traces a historical pattern: elites turning new forms of money into instruments of authority. A 19th-century scholar of tribal "money" suggests stablecoins may be repeating that cycle i...
duckbucks.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Bill Maurer on how stablecoins represent a "contemporary manifestation of patterns that have recurred throughout history when elites adopt new money forms to assert their authority, gather followers and manage their own political positions" duckbucks.com/a/stablecoin...
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Meta knowingly makes billions from scam ads, while vulnerable users around the world lose devastating amounts. It’s time to hold the company accountable for its role in this shameful cycle of harm, @lanalanalana.bsky.social & D&S's @alicetiara.bsky.social write. www.theverge.com/tech/820906/...
Meta must rein in scammers — or face consequences
Scams are ruinous to users — but, reportedly, big business to Meta.
www.theverge.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Meta knowingly makes billions from scam ads, while vulnerable users around the world lose devastating amounts. It’s time to hold the company accountable for its role in this shameful cycle of harm, @lanalanalana.bsky.social & D&S's @alicetiara.bsky.social write. www.theverge.com/tech/820906/...
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New in @theverge.com - half of US scams originate on a Meta property. The company must do more. @lanalanalana.bsky.social and I weigh in www.theverge.com/tech/820906/...
Meta must rein in scammers — or face consequences
Scams are ruinous to users — but, reportedly, big business to Meta.
www.theverge.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
New in @theverge.com - half of US scams originate on a Meta property. The company must do more. @lanalanalana.bsky.social and I weigh in www.theverge.com/tech/820906/...
My commentary with @alicetiara.bsky.social on Meta making a killing off scam ads www.theverge.com/tech/820906/...
Meta must rein in scammers — or face consequences
Scams are ruinous to users — but, reportedly, big business to Meta.
www.theverge.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My commentary with @alicetiara.bsky.social on Meta making a killing off scam ads www.theverge.com/tech/820906/...
A tour de force in less than 3000 words on how we got here by one of my favorite people
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...
Opinion | How a Fringe Movement of Gun Nuts, Backwoodsmen and Free Marketers Paved the Way for Autocracy
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A tour de force in less than 3000 words on how we got here by one of my favorite people
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...
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2/6
In the third episode of Gotcha!, our mini-series on scams, @alixdunn.com talks with @lanalanalana.bsky.social and @alicetiara.bsky.social about how generative AI is reshaping the fraud industry.
In the third episode of Gotcha!, our mini-series on scams, @alixdunn.com talks with @lanalanalana.bsky.social and @alicetiara.bsky.social about how generative AI is reshaping the fraud industry.
October 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
2/6
In the third episode of Gotcha!, our mini-series on scams, @alixdunn.com talks with @lanalanalana.bsky.social and @alicetiara.bsky.social about how generative AI is reshaping the fraud industry.
In the third episode of Gotcha!, our mini-series on scams, @alixdunn.com talks with @lanalanalana.bsky.social and @alicetiara.bsky.social about how generative AI is reshaping the fraud industry.
This was a great conversation. @alixdunn.com asked all the right questions. And of course I love this whole series
October 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This was a great conversation. @alixdunn.com asked all the right questions. And of course I love this whole series
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This was such a great convo and thrilled to be part of a whole series on scams and schemes. Thanks @alixdunn.com !
How is AI changing the nature of scams? @lanalanalana.bsky.social & @alicetiara.bsky.social spoke to @alixdunn.com on @themaybe.org to explain how AI automates & scales the work already being done in massive, exploitative “cybercrime compounds” around the world. www.themaybe.org/podcast/gotc...
The Maybe
www.themaybe.org
October 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This was such a great convo and thrilled to be part of a whole series on scams and schemes. Thanks @alixdunn.com !
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How is AI changing the nature of scams? @lanalanalana.bsky.social & @alicetiara.bsky.social spoke to @alixdunn.com on @themaybe.org to explain how AI automates & scales the work already being done in massive, exploitative “cybercrime compounds” around the world. www.themaybe.org/podcast/gotc...
The Maybe
www.themaybe.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
How is AI changing the nature of scams? @lanalanalana.bsky.social & @alicetiara.bsky.social spoke to @alixdunn.com on @themaybe.org to explain how AI automates & scales the work already being done in massive, exploitative “cybercrime compounds” around the world. www.themaybe.org/podcast/gotc...
Two amazing positions at University of Copenhagen on finfluencers and online communities
Post-doc: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
Post-doc: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
PhD scholarship in financial influence at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
jobportal.ku.dk
September 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Two amazing positions at University of Copenhagen on finfluencers and online communities
Post-doc: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
Post-doc: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
Adding to my ever-expanding list of "Things that Have Been Called Scams"
September 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Adding to my ever-expanding list of "Things that Have Been Called Scams"
Who else is heading to Copenhagen for Finance and Society?
September 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Who else is heading to Copenhagen for Finance and Society?
Putting finalizing syllabus. Key terms:
hawk tuah
enshittification
channel stuffing
scambaiting
pig butchering
harpoon phishing
sextortion
WAGMI
Class is about ethics, obviously
hawk tuah
enshittification
channel stuffing
scambaiting
pig butchering
harpoon phishing
sextortion
WAGMI
Class is about ethics, obviously
August 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Putting finalizing syllabus. Key terms:
hawk tuah
enshittification
channel stuffing
scambaiting
pig butchering
harpoon phishing
sextortion
WAGMI
Class is about ethics, obviously
hawk tuah
enshittification
channel stuffing
scambaiting
pig butchering
harpoon phishing
sextortion
WAGMI
Class is about ethics, obviously
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Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us!
@finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...
@finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...
August 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us!
@finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...
@finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...
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For more, don’t miss our recent primer “ScamGPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud” by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson. datasociety.net/library/scam...
July 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
For more, don’t miss our recent primer “ScamGPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud” by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson. datasociety.net/library/scam...
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I chat with @jathansadowski.com about AI, scams, and conspiracy theories on the new ep of This Machine Kills. soundcloud.com/thismachinek... and don't forget to read @lanalanalana.bsky.social and I's report on ScamGPT: datasociety.net/library/scam...
413. ScamGPT – How AI Supercharges Fraud (ft. Alice Marwick)
We chat with Alice Marwick — director of research at Data & Society — about a new report she co-authored on how generative AI is now unleashing a new world of scams and fraud. AI is supercharging the
soundcloud.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I chat with @jathansadowski.com about AI, scams, and conspiracy theories on the new ep of This Machine Kills. soundcloud.com/thismachinek... and don't forget to read @lanalanalana.bsky.social and I's report on ScamGPT: datasociety.net/library/scam...
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IU has the oldest Folklore Department in the country--no longer a major. Cognitive Science? gone! PhD programs also sacrificed. Full list here: www.in.gov/che/files/In...
www.in.gov
June 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
IU has the oldest Folklore Department in the country--no longer a major. Cognitive Science? gone! PhD programs also sacrificed. Full list here: www.in.gov/che/files/In...
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So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
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And now with open access on our blog www.journalofculturaleconomy.org/a-sociology-...
June 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
And now with open access on our blog www.journalofculturaleconomy.org/a-sociology-...
Headed to Stockholm for IMSW. Hit me up if you are too
June 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Headed to Stockholm for IMSW. Hit me up if you are too