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.
Players are roleplaying in Fortnite to teach each other their rights when encountering ICE officials โ€œI would slip [the warrant] under the door, but thereโ€™s no space under the door,โ€ the agent says. The civilian pauses. โ€œWell. Sounds like a personal problem.โ€
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
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."
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
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 itโ€™s in Lima, Peru. Taken down 19 missiles in the past two weeks.
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:
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
The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week - the Epstein email dump is a mess - contractor paying randos on LinkedIn $300 to physically track immigrants - subscribers-only: a new code of conduct in the adult industry Watch here: