Jason Koebler

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Journalist @404Media.co

Signal: jason.404 // email: [email protected]

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2026-06-01 17:04:36 UTC

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal.
Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI:
[www.404media.co/hackers-simp...](https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/ )
[Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI t...](https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/ )

2026-03-19 17:39:34 UTC

Hope everyone still has the NFT that grants them access to the Metaverse funeral!
[www.404media.co/rip-metavers...](https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/ )
[RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion ...](https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/ )

2026-03-14 16:01:37 UTC

torrents are undefeated:
[www.404media.co/the-removed-...](https://www.404media.co/the-removed-doge-deposition-videos-have-already-been-backed-up-across-the-internet/ )
[The Removed DOGE Deposition Vi...](https://www.404media.co/the-removed-doge-deposition-videos-have-already-been-backed-up-across-the-internet/ )

2026-03-12 15:13:04 UTC

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
[www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...](https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/ )
['AI Is African Intelligence': ...](https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/ )

2026-03-06 03:51:30 UTC

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions [www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/us/florida-gop-slurs-group-chat.html )
[Slurs Filled a Chat Created by...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/us/florida-gop-slurs-group-chat.html )

2026-01-20 14:56:31 UTC

extremely broad and alarming drone no fly zone designed to protect ICE agents just dropped. notable in part because some folks have used drones to film law enforcement abuses:
[www.404media.co/feds-create-...](https://www.404media.co/feds-create-drone-no-fly-zone-that-would-stop-people-filming-ice/ )
[Feds Create Drone No Fly Zone ...](https://www.404media.co/feds-create-drone-no-fly-zone-that-would-stop-people-filming-ice/ )

2026-01-13 15:46:14 UTC

New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance targets nationwide from thousands of different police departments because of a public records redaction error in Flock data. Reveals active police investigations, border patrol & ICE targets, lots more:
[www.404media.co/police-unmas...](https://www.404media.co/police-unmask-millions-of-surveillance-targets-because-of-flock-redaction-error/ )
[Police Unmask Millions of Surv...](https://www.404media.co/police-unmask-millions-of-surveillance-targets-because-of-flock-redaction-error/ )

2026-01-05 21:06:24 UTC

The worst world events filtered through the worst AI imaginable by the worst people on earth overseen by the worst man on earth
[www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...](https://www.404media.co/groks-ai-csam-shitshow/ )
[Grok's AI CSAM Shitshow](https://www.404media.co/groks-ai-csam-shitshow/ )

2025-12-11 15:58:34 UTC

Porn is being injected into dozens of government websites across the country using malicious PDFs. A separate attack is hijacking govt websites to redirect to penis enlargement scams and animal vagina masturbators. Cool stuff:
[www.404media.co/porn-is-bein...](https://www.404media.co/porn-is-being-injected-into-government-websites-via-malicious-pdfs/ )
[Porn Is Being Injected Into Go...](https://www.404media.co/porn-is-being-injected-into-government-websites-via-malicious-pdfs/ )

2025-12-07 01:10:06 UTC

a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work: [www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/ )
[allow me to take you on a jour...](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/ )

2025-11-20 21:40:20 UTC

it's enjoyable. i'm enjoying it
[www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...](https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-could-drink-piss-better-than-any-human-in-history-grok-says/ )
[Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Be...](https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-could-drink-piss-better-than-any-human-in-history-grok-says/ )

2025-11-16 18:43:38 UTC

last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before
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2025-11-12 17:51:17 UTC

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by [@chadloder.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/chadloder.bsky.social )
[www.404media.co/ai-generated...](https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/ )
[AI-Generated Videos of ICE Rai...](https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/ )

2025-11-06 16:21:45 UTC

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
[www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...](https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/ )
[AI Is Supercharging the War on...](https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/ )

2025-11-03 21:06:01 UTC

this is very cool: Kodak quietly relisted Kodak Gold and Ultramax on its website and confirmed to me it is selling the films directly to photography stores again. this is a big deal because for the last decade, Kodak has not controlled distribution of its own film
[www.404media.co/kodak-quietl...](https://www.404media.co/kodak-quietly-begins-directly-selling-kodak-gold-and-ultramax-film-again/ )
[Kodak Quietly Begins Directly ...](https://www.404media.co/kodak-quietly-begins-directly-selling-kodak-gold-and-ultramax-film-again/ )

2025-10-28 18:26:01 UTC

This is so bleak:
[www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...](https://www.404media.co/a16z-is-funding-a-speedrun-to-ai-generated-hell-on-earth/ )
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2025-10-08 14:52:02 UTC

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404
also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w/post/3m2orkcorok2m
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2025-10-07 13:04:25 UTC

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"
Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime
[www.404media.co/police-said-...](https://www.404media.co/police-said-they-surveilled-woman-who-had-an-abortion-for-her-safety-court-records-show-they-considered-charging-her-with-a-crime/ )
[Police Said They Surveilled Wo...](https://www.404media.co/police-said-they-surveilled-woman-who-had-an-abortion-for-her-safety-court-records-show-they-considered-charging-her-with-a-crime/ )

2025-10-03 02:38:58 UTC

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
[www.404media.co/iceblock-own...](https://www.404media.co/iceblock-owner-after-apple-removes-app-we-are-determined-to-fight-this/ )
[ICEBlock Owner After Apple Rem...](https://www.404media.co/iceblock-owner-after-apple-removes-app-we-are-determined-to-fight-this/ )

2025-09-30 21:52:44 UTC

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising
[www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...](https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/ )
[ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Lo...](https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/ )

2025-09-22 16:28:03 UTC

New: We have just sued ICE to demand it turns over a secretive spyware contract that it refuses to release:
[www.404media.co/were-suing-i...](https://www.404media.co/were-suing-ice-for-its-2-million-spyware-contract/ )
[We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Mil...](https://www.404media.co/were-suing-ice-for-its-2-million-spyware-contract/ )

2025-09-12 15:23:16 UTC

Corporate media bravely continues Charlie Kirk's legacy by committing to destroy the careers of anyone who disagreed with him:
[www.404media.co/comcast-nbcu...](https://www.404media.co/comcast-nbcuniversal-email-charlie-kirk/ )
[Comcast Executives Warn Worker...](https://www.404media.co/comcast-nbcuniversal-email-charlie-kirk/ )

2025-09-11 17:47:49 UTC

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:
[www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...](https://www.404media.co/charlie-kirk-was-not-practicing-politics-the-right-way/ )
[Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicin...](https://www.404media.co/charlie-kirk-was-not-practicing-politics-the-right-way/ )

2025-09-09 14:12:54 UTC

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc.
[www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...](https://www.404media.co/its-just-a-mess-23-people-explain-how-tariffs-have-suddenly-ruined-their-hobby/ )
[‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People ...](https://www.404media.co/its-just-a-mess-23-people-explain-how-tariffs-have-suddenly-ruined-their-hobby/ )

2025-08-29 15:34:31 UTC

Trump take LEGO
[www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...](https://www.404media.co/lego-stops-shipping-individual-bricks-to-united-states-after-trumps-tariffs/ )
[LEGO Stops Shipping Individual...](https://www.404media.co/lego-stops-shipping-individual-bricks-to-united-states-after-trumps-tariffs/ )

2025-08-28 14:41:39 UTC

Buying anything from overseas is about to get more expensive, more logistically complicated, slower, and overall more annoying. Film photography community, retro games community, people into skincare already seeing chaos on eBay. eBay sellers locking US buyers out.
[www.404media.co/trump-tariff...](https://www.404media.co/trump-tariffs-cause-chaos-on-ebay-having-a-hobby-is-now-a-logistical-nightmare/ )
[Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on E...](https://www.404media.co/trump-tariffs-cause-chaos-on-ebay-having-a-hobby-is-now-a-logistical-nightmare/ )

2025-08-22 16:04:55 UTC

Today is the two year anniversary of 404 Media, which is hard to fathom. We wrote about how it's going, what we've done, what we're going to do, and what we've learned. We cannot do this without the support of our subscribers and for that we are endlessly thankful:
[www.404media.co/two-years-40...](https://www.404media.co/two-years-404-media-anniversary/ )
[404 Media at Two Years: How We...](https://www.404media.co/two-years-404-media-anniversary/ )

2025-08-18 15:29:40 UTC

TikTok Shop is selling 'Silent' GPS trackers that are marketed to stalkers and domestic abusers. Many of the videos have millions of views and at least 100,000 of them have been sold. TikTok's algorithm endlessly puts these in front of you if you fall into the algo:
[www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-...](https://www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-sells-viral-gps-trackers-marketed-to-stalkers/ )
[TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Tr...](https://www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-sells-viral-gps-trackers-marketed-to-stalkers/ )

2025-08-08 14:27:46 UTC

After asking ChatGPT what to eat instead of salt, a man slowly poisoned himself over course of 3 months and gave himself a psychiatric illness that was common in the 19th century, according to a new medical case study:
[www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...](https://www.404media.co/guy-gives-himself-19th-century-psychiatric-illness-after-consulting-with-chatgpt/ )
[Guy Gives Himself 19th Century...](https://www.404media.co/guy-gives-himself-19th-century-psychiatric-illness-after-consulting-with-chatgpt/ )

2025-08-06 15:24:30 UTC

New: A Sheriff's Office in Texas has access to data from AI license plate reading cameras at hundreds of Home Depots (in Texas) and Lowe's (around the country)
[www.404media.co/home-depot-a...](https://www.404media.co/home-depot-and-lowes-share-data-from-hundreds-of-ai-cameras-with-cops/ )
[Home Depot and Lowe's Share Da...](https://www.404media.co/home-depot-and-lowes-share-data-from-hundreds-of-ai-cameras-with-cops/ )

2025-07-30 15:45:32 UTC

This is extremely bad: Journalist Jack Poulson discovered a vulnerability in Google that was being exploited to get his reporting about a CEO deleted off of the search rankings.
This is a wet dream for reputation management companies, censorious regimes, etc
[www.404media.co/journalist-d...](https://www.404media.co/journalist-discovers-google-vulnerability-that-allowed-people-to-disappear-specific-pages-from-search/ )
[Journalist Discovers Google Vu...](https://www.404media.co/journalist-discovers-google-vulnerability-that-allowed-people-to-disappear-specific-pages-from-search/ )

2025-07-22 16:20:20 UTC

New: I obtained an internal memo the Pentagon sent the White House about complying with anti-trans exec order
This includes "continuously" monitoring bathrooms for compliance
Also ordered a "review hold" on Stars & Stripes, a nominally independent newspaper
[www.404media.co/pentagon-say...](https://www.404media.co/pentagon-says-it-will-continuously-monitor-bathrooms-to-comply-with-anti-trans-order/ )
[Pentagon Says It Will ‘Continu...](https://www.404media.co/pentagon-says-it-will-continuously-monitor-bathrooms-to-comply-with-anti-trans-order/ )

2025-07-18 15:24:57 UTC

Famously the founding fathers were big ben shapiro fans
[www.404media.co/white-house-...](https://www.404media.co/white-house-partners-with-prageru-to-make-ai-slopified-founding-fathers/ )
[White House Partners With Prag...](https://www.404media.co/white-house-partners-with-prageru-to-make-ai-slopified-founding-fathers/ )

2025-07-05 05:38:27 UTC

the NYT never says sorry for anything even when they are blatantly wrong. this is how it has always been. they rarely link, when called out about this they twist themselves into pretzels to explain how they actually don’t owe you a link. their institutional posture is “we are never wrong”
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jmte4w4x7ukciit6lci6ziau/post/3lt6ct3zwwk24

2025-06-24 14:58:38 UTC

Gonna continue my crusade against the NYTimes's obsession with not saying bad words to say this is so pathetic:
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2025-06-16 20:09:02 UTC

TIL people are rubbing cow fat on their faces and calling it sunscreen
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2025-06-16 16:41:22 UTC

class action lawsuit against the political text message spam regime [www.404media.co/winred-texts...](https://www.404media.co/winred-texts-class-action-lawsuit-rnc-donations/ )
[RNC Sued Over WinRed's Constan...](https://www.404media.co/winred-texts-class-action-lawsuit-rnc-donations/ )

2025-06-10 13:15:05 UTC

Airlines sell passenger data to the feds through a separate data broker they spun up and put in the contract that DHS is not allowed to tell anyone that it comes from the airlines:
[www.404media.co/airlines-don...](https://www.404media.co/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/ )
[Airlines Don't Want You to Kno...](https://www.404media.co/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/ )

2025-06-09 01:03:50 UTC

important note: the LAPD has figured out it can get footage from Waymos: [www.404media.co/lapd-publish...](https://www.404media.co/lapd-publishes-crime-footage-it-got-from-a-waymo-driverless-car/ )
[LAPD Publishes Crime Footage I...](https://www.404media.co/lapd-publishes-crime-footage-it-got-from-a-waymo-driverless-car/ )

2025-06-03 14:26:13 UTC

Extremely interesting story: the Ukraine drones that did this weekend’s massive attack were powered by free open source pilot assistance software
[www.404media.co/ukraines-mas...](https://www.404media.co/ukraines-massive-drone-attack-was-powered-by-open-source-software/ )
[Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack...](https://www.404media.co/ukraines-massive-drone-attack-was-powered-by-open-source-software/ )

2025-05-29 17:37:36 UTC

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety"
[www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...](https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/ )
[A Texas Cop Searched License P...](https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/ )

2025-05-27 13:40:55 UTC

SCOOP: ICE, HSI, and DHS are getting side-door access to the nationwide system of Flock license plate cameras by asking local police to perform lookups for them, new public records show.
ICE does *not* have a contract to use this surveillance tool itself.
[www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...](https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/ )
[ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-En...](https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/ )

2025-05-20 14:47:27 UTC

I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times
[www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...](https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-with-books-that-dont-exist/ )
[Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Ge...](https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-with-books-that-dont-exist/ )

2025-05-09 13:48:00 UTC

Meta's PR absolutely lost its shit at us a few months ago when we wrote about how a student added facial recognition to its Rayban smart glasses, the underlying implication being that it would not do that itself. Well Well Well. WELL WELL WELL
[www.404media.co/well-well-we...](https://www.404media.co/well-well-well-meta-to-add-facial-recognition-to-glasses-after-all/ )
[Well, Well, Well: Meta to Add ...](https://www.404media.co/well-well-well-meta-to-add-facial-recognition-to-glasses-after-all/ )

2025-05-05 17:44:38 UTC

NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website
[www.404media.co/globalx-airl...](https://www.404media.co/globalx-airline-for-trumps-deportations-hacked/ )
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2025-05-02 17:01:44 UTC

Wrote about the nation's greatest living dystopian fiction salesman, Howard Lutnick, and the pathetic policies that are trying to bring this technofeudalist fever dream to life:
[www.404media.co/your-childre...](https://www.404media.co/your-childrens-children-will-die-in-our-factories/ )
[Your Children’s Children Will ...](https://www.404media.co/your-childrens-children-will-die-in-our-factories/ )

2025-04-29 13:57:48 UTC

New: Reddit is pursuing legal action against the researchers who secretly ran a massive AI persuasion experiment on its users:
[www.404media.co/reddit-issui...](https://www.404media.co/reddit-issuing-formal-legal-demands-against-researchers-who-conducted-secret-ai-experiment-on-users/ )
[Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal D...](https://www.404media.co/reddit-issuing-formal-legal-demands-against-researchers-who-conducted-secret-ai-experiment-on-users/ )

2025-04-19 18:50:32 UTC

this article / headline / framing is malpractice. some of the worst I’ve ever seen [www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fsu-shooting-motive-phoenix-ikner-suspect-rcna201942 )
[FSU shooting suspect's complex...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fsu-shooting-motive-phoenix-ikner-suspect-rcna201942 )

2025-04-17 19:12:14 UTC

Something I don’t do is walk into people’s jobs and ask them to do their work for free and demand that they do it for free for me or start yelling that they should reorient everything they do to appease me. Just saying

2025-03-27 17:13:06 UTC

Seeing basically indecipherably fakeAI versions of this pop up in real time and go viral alongside the real thing is our new normal unfortunately [www.404media.co/pikachu-spot...](https://www.404media.co/pikachu-spotted-fleeing-police-crackdowns-during-turkey-protests/ )
[Pikachu Spotted Fleeing Police...](https://www.404media.co/pikachu-spotted-fleeing-police-crackdowns-during-turkey-protests/ )

2025-03-12 15:09:07 UTC

An ICE contractor is currently monitoring more than 200 sites (including Bluesky) to draw connections between people and between accounts on different sites. Not good considering ICE is disappearing people at the moment
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[The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveill...](https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/ )

2025-02-24 15:38:52 UTC

New: All 50 states have now introduced right to repair legislation. A really amazing milestone for a grassroots movement. Wisconsin just became the last state to do it:
[www.404media.co/all-50-state...](https://www.404media.co/all-50-states-have-now-introduced-right-to-repair-legislation/ )
[All 50 States Have Now Introdu...](https://www.404media.co/all-50-states-have-now-introduced-right-to-repair-legislation/ )

2025-02-18 19:23:44 UTC

NEW: A government employee for Notify. gov, a system used by agencies to send mass texts to the public, has resigned in protest after an Elon Musk ally demanded root access to it. They said the system contains the public's phone numbers & private info:
[www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...](https://www.404media.co/musk-ally-demands-admin-access-to-system-that-lets-government-text-the-public/ )
[Musk Ally Demands Admin Access...](https://www.404media.co/musk-ally-demands-admin-access-to-system-that-lets-government-text-the-public/ )

2025-02-14 06:44:30 UTC

Scoop: The databases powering [DOGE.gov](https://DOGE.gov ) are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
[www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...](https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/ )
[Anyone Can Push Updates to the...](https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/ )

2025-02-11 15:06:26 UTC

Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments
[www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...](https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-prepares-for-increase-in-threats-to-us-editors-from-musk-and-his-allies/ )
[Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increa...](https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-prepares-for-increase-in-threats-to-us-editors-from-musk-and-his-allies/ )

2025-01-30 21:42:08 UTC

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"
[www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...](https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-says-everything-i-say-leaks-in-leaked-meeting-audio/ )
[Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I ...](https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-says-everything-i-say-leaks-in-leaked-meeting-audio/ )

2025-01-30 19:40:29 UTC

Thousands of datasets have disappeared from [data.gov](https://data.gov ). Determining what's gone, why it's gone, and whether it moved elsewhere will to take time. Things are definitely being purged but archivists working hard to determine exactly what has happened to a given dataset
[www.404media.co/archivists-w...](https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/ )
[Archivists Work to Identify an...](https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/ )

2025-01-29 20:53:41 UTC

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
[www.404media.co/declassified...](https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/ )
[Declassified CIA Guide to Sabo...](https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/ )

2025-01-23 20:19:15 UTC

You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages:
[www.404media.co/github-is-sh...](https://www.404media.co/github-is-showing-the-trump-administration-scrubbing-government-web-pages-in-real-time/ )
[GitHub Is Showing the Trump Ad...](https://www.404media.co/github-is-showing-the-trump-administration-scrubbing-government-web-pages-in-real-time/ )

2025-01-13 17:52:34 UTC

Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: [www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...](https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/ )
[Meta Is Blocking Links to Dece...](https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/ )

2025-01-10 17:09:50 UTC

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"
[www.404media.co/meta-deletes...](https://www.404media.co/meta-deletes-trans-and-nonbinary-messenger-themes/ )
[Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbina...](https://www.404media.co/meta-deletes-trans-and-nonbinary-messenger-themes/ )

2025-01-08 15:09:51 UTC

Meta has repeatedly deleted our articles, including ones about Instagram's censorship and disproportionate moderation against trans people. It put a "fact check" warning on an article we did about hurricane helene AI spam proliferating on the platform
[www.404media.co/facebook-is-...](https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-censoring-404-media-stories-about-facebooks-censorship/ )
[Facebook Is Censoring 404 Medi...](https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-censoring-404-media-stories-about-facebooks-censorship/ )

2025-01-07 16:17:33 UTC

NEW: On the same day Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta's new commitment to "Free Expression," internal employee dissent and criticism is being censored
[www.404media.co/facebook-del...](https://www.404media.co/facebook-deletes-internal-employee-criticism-of-new-board-member-dana-white/ )
[Facebook Deletes Internal Empl...](https://www.404media.co/facebook-deletes-internal-employee-criticism-of-new-board-member-dana-white/ )

2025-01-03 17:35:37 UTC

NEW: Meta tells me that it is deleting the AI profiles that are currently going viral, and that there is "confusion" about these versus what is to come in the future.
A few of them are being deleted as we speak:
[www.404media.co/metas-ai-pro...](https://www.404media.co/metas-ai-profiles-are-indistinguishable-from-terrible-spam-that-took-over-facebook/ )
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2024-12-11 15:57:52 UTC

I went to the premiere of the first commercially streaming AI-generated movies, which are being released by TV giant TCL:
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2024-12-09 16:47:09 UTC

New: Texas AG Ken Paxton has subpoenaed 404 Media for confidential reporting about an internal Google privacy incident database we published in June. If Paxton wants the database, he can get it directly from Google. Our lawyers have formally objected to the subpoena:
[www.404media.co/404-media-ob...](https://www.404media.co/404-media-objects-to-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxtons-subpoena-to-access-our-reporting/ )
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2024-11-19 15:45:43 UTC

Pokemon Go players have been unwittingly mapping the entire world to train a geospatial AI model whose most obvious use cases are for robotic navigation and possibly the military
[www.404media.co/pokemon-go-p...](https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/ )
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