NOEMI LARDIZABAL-DADO
A citizen with an online voice enabled by technology and social media can connect with the marginalized. It is challenging. Ten years ago, a reader pointed me to a woman accused of an elaborate hoax by her boyfriend based abroad. I wanted to give her a voice. The boyfriend wrote many scathing blog posts on her alleged scam. She did not have the budget for internet cafe fees to blog her story. Facebook was not popular and free in 2007. I scrutinized the blog posts of her boyfriend and interviewed her. Upon hearing both sides of the story, I concluded it was not a scam.