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![Bad romance: Online dating complaints](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2016/09/13/okcupid_darkbg.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Bad romance: Online dating complaints
About half of all complaints involve allegations of what the FTC calls “romance scams,” in which online con artists swindled hundreds or thousands of dollars from naive lonelyhearts.
![FBI reveals why it labeled Insane Clown Posse gang leaders](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2016/02/06/ThisImageDoe.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
FBI reveals why it labeled Insane Clown Posse gang leaders
Records released to MuckRock user Rich Jones show that the FBI’s Salt Lake City office conducted a 14-month investigation into the horrorcore duo’s fanbase. The file identifies Juggalos and Juggalettes as a “violent street gang” numbering in the thousands, whose members “sometimes paint their faces to look like wicked clowns” and “continue the dress by carrying small axes.”
![Gore Vidal's FBI file documents every time he got under J. Edgar Hoover's thin skin](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/gore1.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Gore Vidal’s FBI file documents every time he got under J. Edgar Hoover’s thin skin
Under J. Edgar Hoover, one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s top priorities was to keep tabs on the director’s critics. Unsurprisingly, the 35-page FBI file on Gore Vidal reads like an enumeration of the liberal author’s slights against Hoover, all of them reported by Bureau agents or Hoover’s fans.
!["Please get him off the air." The Colbert Report FCC complaints](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/colbertlogo.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
“Please get him off the air.” The Colbert Report FCC complaints
The Colbert Report may have begun as a showcase for comedian Stephen Colbert and a spiteful spoof of Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly, but complaints filed with the Federal Communications Commission against the parody show suggest that the program has also become the nation’s top purveyor of castration anxiety and teabagging gags.
![Read nearly 700 FTC complaints regarding Yelp](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2016/03/30/YelpCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Read nearly 700 FTC complaints regarding Yelp
MuckRock user Robert Delaware requested complaints against Yelp to the FTC from the last four years, and got back 700 - that amounts to almost one complaint filed every two days, with most coming from small-scale entrepreneurs who are especially vulnerable to online reviews.