Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam

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aunty_helen · 2025-01 · Strong recommendation

[LINK] For context, this all started about 2 weeks ago with one of the best pieces of investigative journalism I've seen on youtube: [VIDEO] And it's spiraling from there into lawsuits etc. I'm kinda glad PayPal bought them as they can't just shut down and file bankruptcy. Hopefully some of these creators will get paid out for lost revenue.

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smcleod · 2024-12 · Recommendation

Good video I watched recently on how the Honey scam works: [VIDEO] *Edit: Oh I see you mention it in the video on your project! Nice work.

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al_borland · 2026-01 · Reference

While there is a lot of low-effort content, there is also some pretty involved stuff. The investigation into Honey’s shenanigans[0] was investigated and presented first on YouTube (to the best of my knowledge). The fraud in Minnesota was also broken by a YouTuber who just testified to Congress[1]. There are people doing original work on there, you just have to end up in an algorithm that surfaces it… or seek it out. In other cases people are presenting stuff I wouldn’t otherwise know about, and getting access to see it at levels I wouldn’t otherwise be able to see, like Cleo Abram’s[0] latest video about LIGO[1]. Yes, it’s a mostly entertaining overview of what’s going on, not a white paper on the equipment, but this is probably more in depth than what a science program on TV in the 80s or 90s would have been… at least on par. There are also full class lectures, which people can access without being enrolled in a school. While YouTube isn’t the original source, it is still shared in full, not summarized or changed for entertainment purposes. [0] [VIDEO] (part 1 of 3) [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK]

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