Can We Trust *Anyone* We Meet Online Anymore? From The High School Catfish to Fake Digital Identities & Beyond...

27/09/2025 16 min
Can We Trust *Anyone* We Meet Online Anymore? From The High School Catfish to Fake Digital Identities & Beyond...

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Everything from faking dating profiles to Netflix's Unknown Number: The High School Catfish and beyond has us questioning how we can *ever* really be sure who to trust online at this point... So let’s take a deeper look at this problem from a few different angles, from digital tweaking to AI profiles to Catfish to parents catfishing their own kids and beyond to get a better understanding of what’s propelling this issue – and why it’s only getting scarier.
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