Nostr notes by Jason Koebler

Hope everyone still has the NFT that grants them access to the ...

2026-03-19T17:39:34Z

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/ )

torrents are undefeated: ...

2026-03-14T16:01:37Z

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/ )

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their ...

2026-03-12T15:13:04Z

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/ )

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award ...

2026-03-06T03:51:30Z

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 )

extremely broad and alarming drone no fly zone designed to ...

2026-01-20T14:56:31Z

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/ )

New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance ...

2026-01-13T15:46:14Z

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/ )

The worst world events filtered through the worst AI imaginable ...

2026-01-05T21:06:24Z

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/ )

Porn is being injected into dozens of government websites across ...

2025-12-11T15:58:34Z

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/ )

a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space ...

2025-12-07T01:10:06Z

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/ )

it's enjoyable. i'm enjoying it ...

2025-11-20T21:40:20Z

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/ )

last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by ...

2025-11-16T18:43:38Z

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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The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine ...

2025-11-12T17:51:17Z

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/ )

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and ...

2025-11-06T16:21:45Z

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/ )

this is very cool: Kodak quietly relisted Kodak Gold and Ultramax ...

2025-11-03T21:06:01Z

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/ )

This is so bleak: ...

2025-10-28T18:26:01Z

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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if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea ...

2025-10-08T14:52:02Z

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

quoting
note12su…0ntx

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
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NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the ...

2025-10-07T13:04:25Z

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/ )

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app ...

2025-10-03T02:38:58Z

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/ )

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds ...

2025-09-30T21:52:44Z

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/ )

New: We have just sued ICE to demand it turns over a secretive ...

2025-09-22T16:28:03Z

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/ )

Corporate media bravely continues Charlie Kirk's legacy by ...

2025-09-12T15:23:16Z

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/ )

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie ...

2025-09-11T17:47:49Z

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/ )

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or ...

2025-09-09T14:12:54Z

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/ )

Trump take LEGO ...

2025-08-29T15:34:31Z

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/ )

Buying anything from overseas is about to get more expensive, ...

2025-08-28T14:41:39Z

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/ )

Today is the two year anniversary of 404 Media, which is hard to ...

2025-08-22T16:04:55Z

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/ )

TikTok Shop is selling 'Silent' GPS trackers that are ...

2025-08-18T15:29:40Z

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/ )

After asking ChatGPT what to eat instead of salt, a man slowly ...

2025-08-08T14:27:46Z

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/ )

New: A Sheriff's Office in Texas has access to data from AI ...

2025-08-06T15:24:30Z

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/ )

This is extremely bad: Journalist Jack Poulson discovered a ...

2025-07-30T15:45:32Z

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/ )

New: I obtained an internal memo the Pentagon sent the White ...

2025-07-22T16:20:20Z

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/ )

Famously the founding fathers were big ben shapiro fans ...

2025-07-18T15:24:57Z

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/ )

the NYT never says sorry for anything even when they are ...

2025-07-05T05:38:27Z

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”

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Gonna continue my crusade against the NYTimes's obsession ...

2025-06-24T14:58:38Z

Gonna continue my crusade against the NYTimes's obsession with not saying bad words to say this is so pathetic:
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TIL people are rubbing cow fat on their faces and calling it ...

2025-06-16T20:09:02Z

TIL people are rubbing cow fat on their faces and calling it sunscreen
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class action lawsuit against the political text message spam ...

2025-06-16T16:41:22Z

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/ )

Airlines sell passenger data to the feds through a separate data ...

2025-06-10T13:15:05Z

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/ )

important note: the LAPD has figured out it can get footage from ...

2025-06-09T01:03:50Z

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/ )

Extremely interesting story: the Ukraine drones that did this ...

2025-06-03T14:26:13Z

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/ )

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to ...

2025-05-29T17:37:36Z

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/ )

SCOOP: ICE, HSI, and DHS are getting side-door access to the ...

2025-05-27T13:40:55Z

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/ )

I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times ...

2025-05-20T14:47:27Z

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/ )

Meta's PR absolutely lost its shit at us a few months ago ...

2025-05-09T13:48:00Z

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/ )

NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, ...

2025-05-05T17:44:38Z

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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Wrote about the nation's greatest living dystopian fiction ...

2025-05-02T17:01:44Z

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/ )

New: Reddit is pursuing legal action against the researchers who ...

2025-04-29T13:57:48Z

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/ )

this article / headline / framing is malpractice. some of the ...

2025-04-19T18:50:32Z

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 )

Something I don’t do is walk into people’s jobs and ask them ...

2025-04-17T19:12:14Z

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

Seeing basically indecipherably fakeAI versions of this pop up in ...

2025-03-27T17:13:06Z

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/ )

An ICE contractor is currently monitoring more than 200 sites ...

2025-03-12T15:09:07Z

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

[www.404media.co/the-200-site...](https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/ )

[The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveill...](https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/ )

New: All 50 states have now introduced right to repair ...

2025-02-24T15:38:52Z

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/ )

NEW: A government employee for Notify. gov, a system used by ...

2025-02-18T19:23:44Z

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/ )

Scoop: The databases powering [DOGE.gov](https://DOGE.gov ) are ...

2025-02-14T06:44:30Z

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/ )

Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries ...

2025-02-11T15:06:26Z

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/ )

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked ...

2025-01-30T21:42:08Z

"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/ )

Thousands of datasets have disappeared from ...

2025-01-30T19:40:29Z

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/ )

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA ...

2025-01-29T20:53:41Z

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/ )

You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with ...

2025-01-23T20:19:15Z

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/ )

Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source ...

2025-01-13T17:52:34Z

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/ )

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as ...

2025-01-10T17:09:50Z

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/ )

Meta has repeatedly deleted our articles, including ones about ...

2025-01-08T15:09:51Z

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/ )

NEW: On the same day Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta's new ...

2025-01-07T16:17:33Z

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/ )

NEW: Meta tells me that it is deleting the AI profiles that are ...

2025-01-03T17:35:37Z

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/ )
https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cjfcz3t36f6nrprarkhkycxo&cid=bafkreicmahi53agbxhhjipzlw4ntjd4fpxm575mqbnllz5zkwuxqzjwypy

I went to the premiere of the first commercially streaming ...

2024-12-11T15:57:52Z

I went to the premiere of the first commercially streaming AI-generated movies, which are being released by TV giant TCL:

[www.404media.co/i-went-to-th...](https://www.404media.co/i-went-to-the-premiere-of-tcls-first-commercially-streaming-ai-movies/ )

[I Went to the Premiere of the ...](https://www.404media.co/i-went-to-the-premiere-of-tcls-first-commercially-streaming-ai-movies/ )

New: Texas AG Ken Paxton has subpoenaed 404 Media for ...

2024-12-09T16:47:09Z

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/ )

[404 Media Objects to Texas Att...](https://www.404media.co/404-media-objects-to-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxtons-subpoena-to-access-our-reporting/ )

Pokemon Go players have been unwittingly mapping the entire world ...

2024-11-19T15:45:43Z

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/ )

[Pokémon Go Players Have Unwitt...](https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/ )