“We might still be celebrating their very real accomplishments if we didn’t now know they’d been constructed on a lie.”

 

In the spring of 1999, I was approached by two reporters from the Halifax Daily News where I was a weekly columnist. The reporters were trying to document what you could learn about a person from public records—without talking to the person or anyone who knew them—to demonstrate just how public our private lives had become. Would I be their guinea pig?

What could go wrong?

Weeks later, the newspaper published a double-page spread entitled, “Look What We Learned.” A lot.

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