Inside Liftblr: when blogging meets shoplifting – Chips with Everything tech podcast
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They steal, they blog, they repeat. Welcome to Liftblr, the quasi-anarchist portion of Tumblr. Chips with Everything talks to journalist Tasbeeh Herwees, who has reported on Liftblr, and Dr Elizabeth Yardley, a criminologist who focuses on social media connections
In this week's edition of Chips with Everything, we dive head-first into Liftblr, a community of anonymous Tumblr users that supposedly shoplift from major retailers and post their hauls of stolen goods to the social network.
To investigate, we speak to reporter Tasbeeh Herwees who wrote an extensive piece about Liftblr for GOOD Magazine, and Dr Elizabeth Yardley, a criminologist who studies how crime and social media are connected.
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