New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have.
New from 404 Media: you may have seen a "summarize this email" button in your business Gmail. Some will love it, others will hate it. Here's how you opt out. We think? I don't know, it's a mess and I'm the admin. Google told me it will get clearer
New from 404 Media: Meta is laying the narrative groundwork for Trump's mass deportations. Meta now says users can call migrants pieces of trash, vomit, etc. Multiple experts drew parallels to when Facebook contributed to a genocide in Myanmar. Now U.S.
New: this OnlyFans model publishes her machine learning explainers to both YouTube and Pornhub. Although YouTube may get a million views, that'll generate around $300. The same content posted to Pornhub, with ~30k views, makes $1000. We spoke to her
Breaking: FTC is suing tractor maker John Deere over its repair monopoly. For years we've reported how farmers unable to do many repairs due to software locks, and takes days for Deere to do anything, impacting working farmers. FTC now acting
New from 404 Media: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary messenger themes. Comes amid Meta's now allowing users to target trans and gay people, and as Musk says Facebook lifting restrictions on "mainstream discourse"
New from 404 Media: data hacked from location giant Gravy reveals thousands of ordinary apps hijacked to steal your location data. Candy Crush, MyFitnessPal, Tinder. Period trackers, prayer apps. Because of how data collected, apps may not even know
Thank you Gizmodo for including my perspective on why Musk is an ARPG poser and is probably cheating at Diablo IV, Path of Exile 2. Very very on brand. image
New: Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship. Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.
404 Media is back for the new year, and just *today* we have published multiple scoops with only four of us reporting, writing, editing. First: Facebook is censoring its own employees' criticism of hire of UFC head, according to internal messages we got Second: hackers have claimed a massive breach of location data company Gravy. This is a beating heart of worldwide phone monitoring, and provides data to the U.S. government. It's a "nightmare" scenario Third today: police automatic license plate readers are accidentally exposing live feeds to the open internet. So a privacy advocate built a tool that automatically scans the plates and puts them in a spreadsheet to highlight the risk these cameras pose Fourth: People are using AI video generator Runway to post extremely violent Minionfied videos to social media. Unfortunately what people are actually using AI for! 404 Media is primarily powered by paying subscribers. They get access to all of our articles, bonus podcast stuff every single week, FOIA trainings, more. $10 a month. Subscribe here if you like: