New from 404 Media: Facebook is deleting internal employee criticism of its new board hire UFC president and CEO Dana White. Facebook also deleting internal employee posts asking why the first ones deleted
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Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White
"Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE."
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New: Instagram has begun testing a feature in which Meta’s AI will automatically generate images of users in various situations and put them into that user’s feed. We confirmed with Meta it's real.
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Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves
Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.
New from 404 Media: Telegram has handed U.S. authorities data on thousands of its users. An absolutely massive spike in data turn overs after the arrest of Telegram CEO Durov. Was ~100 impacted users to U.S. authorities in October. Now 2253.
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Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users
The number of data requests fulfilled by Telegram skyrocketed, with the company providing data to U.S. authorities on 2,253 users last year.
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pretty interesting musk can remotely unlock cybertrucks
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Elon Musk Uses Cybertruck Explosion to Show Tesla Can Remotely Unlock and Monitor Vehicles
Surveillance capabilities used and justified by extreme circumstances often trickle down to be used on lesser crimes.
New from 404 Media: with 2025 rolling in, Pornhub is now blocked in almost all of the U.S. south. Age verification bills like these beyond are regressive at best, and actively harmful at worst, push people to sites with less moderation
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Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South
As of today, three more states join the list of 17 that can't access Pornhub because of age verification laws.
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Some people have asked that 404 Media moves from a magic link system (to login you are emailed a link to click) to a user/password system. We're four journalists trying to spend as much time as possible doing journalism. We don't want your password
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We Don’t Want Your Password
Some people don't love our magic link logins. But the best way for us to protect your password is to never ask for it.
New from 404 Media: the Secret Service admits it never actually checked if people really consented to being tracked by a location monitoring tool, like it claimed. Under a section saying what steps had it taken to ensure consent, the agency wrote "None"
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Secret Service Admits It Didn’t Check if People Really Consented to Being Tracked
Emails viewed by 404 Media show that the Secret Service did not verify that location data it was tracking people with was actually collected with c...
New from 404 Media: An entity claiming to be United Healthcare is sending bogus copyright claims to internet platforms to get Luigi Mangione fan art taken off the internet
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Copyright Abuse Is Getting Luigi Mangione Merch Removed From the Internet
Artists, merch sellers, and journalists making and posting Luigi media have become the targets of bogus DMCA claims.
New from 404 Media: nearly a *dozen* aircraft near New Jersey/JFK have reported people shining lasers at them Tuesday during ongoing drone panic, according to ATC audio we listened to. Serious danger to people "We are getting lasered" Audio here:
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“We Are Getting Lasered”: Nearly a Dozen Planes Lasered Last Night During New Jersey Drone Panic
Air traffic control audio reviewed by 404 Media shows 11 aircraft near New Jersey reporting people shining lasers at them during the ongoing drone ...
Person makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Creator sticks the cease and desist to a pole and holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it
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Traffic Camera 'Selfie' Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic Cam
Traffic Cam Photobooth lets you take a capture from NYC surveillance camera. The city's Department of Transportation does not like that.