{"slug":"laptop-farm-playbook","title":"The Laptop Farm Playbook","summary":"38 Fortune 500 companies hired people who didn't exist. The reconstruction — and the layer that ends it.","lede":"Between January 2024 and April 2026, at least 38 Fortune 500 companies hired employees who never existed.","date":"2026-05-04","reading_time":"9 min","category":"Investigation","tags":["laptop farm","deepfake","DPRK","hiring fraud","investigation"],"image":"https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Laptop%20Farm%20Playbook/1500_900/blog.jpg","url":"/blog/laptop-farm-playbook.html","wordcount":1080,"related":["resume-fraud-ai-era","deepfake-hiring-playbook","manav-vs-checkr-hireright"],"schema":"NewsArticle"}