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New from 404 Media: X has shown where accounts are actually being run from, revealing many MAGA accounts are actually grifters in Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. But the situation is much, much worse. Entire guides specifically on how to squeeze US audiences with AI.

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America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle

The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

Players are roleplaying in Fortnite to teach each other their rights when encountering ICE officials “I would slip [the warrant] under the door, but there’s no space under the door,” the agent says. The civilian pauses. “Well. Sounds like a personal problem.”

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Inside an ICE Defense Training on Fortnite

A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.

Here's the full conversation between @npub1nn0l...qf5k and Chris Gilliard about how companies convinced consumers to spy on themselves, from Flock to Ring to more: Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, Spotify for more conversations like this every week

I wrote some of the behind the scenes of what led up to the U.S's major airlines stopping a program in which they sold Americans flight data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Came after our months-long reporting and lawmaker pressure

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Behind the Blog: A Risograph Journey and Data Musings

This week, we discuss how data is accessed, AI in games, and more.

New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE. "Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."

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Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country

A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used F...

New from 404 Media: ICE says critical evidence in abuse case was lost in a "system crash." That crash happened just a day after the government was sued

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ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued

The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save t...

New from 404 Media: Ukraine is jamming Russia's "Superweapon" with a song. It's the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Ukraine is tricking the weapon into thinking it’s in Lima, Peru. Taken down 19 missiles in the past two weeks.

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Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song

A few years ago, Putin hyped the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Now electronic warfare is knocking it out of the sky with music and some bad directions.

In an hour we will be doing our latest FOIA Forum, a live-streamed event where we show you how to pry records from the government. Today will all be about Flock, and how researchers and others found cops tapping the nationwide network for ICE, etc. Stream link here:

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Our New FOIA Forum! 11/19, 1PM ET

Come learn how researchers and others learned what cops were using Flock's nationwide network of cameras for, including searches for ICE.

This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them

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Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn

Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, in...