Published May 5, 2021 at 10:21 AM PDT geralt Pixabay P.T. Barnum would have loved the Internet. Instead of having to book performance halls or move a circus around, he could have used the web tools of today and the human gullibility of--well, always--to play big tricks on people. Without Barnum and his impulses to entertain, we have somewhat more sinister people populating the web. Gabrielle Bluestone, a journalist formerly at Vice, covers the activities of these people in