Emanuel Maiberg

fair enough! We took the paywall down in case victims of the hack want to read it and reach out

How to make "monetized USA Accounts" and how to populate them with content is an incredibly popular global YouTube side hustle type of content. Look at this:

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.

X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:

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that's so nice! thank you!

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.

For @404media.co this morning: a group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild. And I got to see it.
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How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.

I'm looking to talk to Tea users who were impacted by the hack we covered a few months ago. If you're one of those people please email me at emanuel@404media.co or hit me up on signal at @emanuel.404 www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

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.

Russia once hyped the Kinzhal as an invincible superweapon. Now Ukraine is downing them by blasting it with music and making it think it's in Peru

OnlyFans Will Start Checking Criminal Records. Creators Say That's a Terrible Idea OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair announced on LinkedIn that the platform partnered with Checkr to

the CEO of OnlyFans posted earlier this month on LinkedIn that the platform is partnering with Checkr to check criminal records of new creators, as part of the onboarding process www.404media.co/onlyfans-bac...

The Video Game Industry’s Existential Crisis (with Jason Schreier) Video games are more popular than ever, but many of the biggest companies in the business seem like they are struggling to adapt and convert that popularity into stability and sustainability.

we're doing an additional interview podcast every week now. For my first, I talked to @jasonschreier.bsky.social about how and why the video game business has changed so much in recent years www.404media.co/the-video-ga...

YouTube video by 404 Media What’s Happening at Xbox and EA (with Jason Schreier)

This was a really great conversation between 404 Media's @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social and Bloomberg's @jasonschreier.bsky.social about the existential crisis facing the video game industry, and especially what is happening with Microsoft/Xbox www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ydF...

This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

New: this app lets ICE track vehicles and owners across the country. ICE uses phone to scan license plates, add to a database of billions of records. Thomson Reuters then enriches that with marriage, voter, other info. Can predict where a car will be in the future
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AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.

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

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OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content OpenAI’s guardrails against copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book.

OpenAI's "guardrails" for copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book. OpenAI will never stop Sora from doing copyright infringement because the AI generator was built with stolen content. www.404media.co/openai-cant-...

Here are some more examples. These whistles come with an immigrant rights hotline, instructions on how to warn people. 3D printing is “a way to show a little extra solidarity, because it's being made for a specific purpose.”

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Podcast: A Massive Archiving Effort at National Parks (with Jenny McBurney and Lynda Kellam) This week we have a conversation between Sam and two of the leaders of the independent volunteer archiving project Save Our Signs, an effort to archive national park signs and monument placards.

as part of the @datarescueproject.org & @SafeguardingResearch, the project has collected more than 10k signs and counting

"The administration was asking for the public to weigh in. Okay then... We the people of America are going to say we think this is important."
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A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

New from 404 Media: a small town is fighting a $1.2 billion AI datacenter for America's nuclear weapon scientists. It is fighting the construction of a "high-performance computing facility" that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

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OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.

today in yikes www.404media.co/openais-sora...

is a hot dog a sandwich? is cereal soup? is ravioli, dumplings? are glasses iphones????

if anyone at meta pr would like to rip bongs and talk about whether we all see colors the same or if a taco is a sandwich etc please hmu

What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.

Meta PR has been challenging us to philosophical debates about the difference between its AI glasses harassment machine and an iPhone, this is my answer www.404media.co/whats-the-di...

How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out o...

PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc

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The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You "Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."

Meta's AI plan is to automatically create personalized advertisements for companies that are different for different users, further siloing people

Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest

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arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers Cornell University’s academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.

Hugely important academic paper repository arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received. This will radically change preprint and open access scientific research
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imagine being in charge of the deadliest weapons ever know to the world, not getting paid, and finding out from social media that you're gonna have to resume testing said weapons

“We have run out of federal funds for federal workers,” Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said in a press conference announcing furlough on October 20. “This has never happened before…we have never furloughed workers in the NNSA. This should not happen. But this was as long as we could stretch the funds for federal workers. We were able to do some gymnastics and stretch it further for the contractors.”

despite the shutdown, the Secretary of Energy said he was able to find SOMETHING to pay contractors .... just not federal employees.

Trump Orders Nuclear Testing As Nuke Workers Go Unpaid Everyone loses and nobody wins if America decides to resume nuclear testing after a 30 year moratorium.

"There is no upside" - @mattkorda.bsky.social

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

several people have emailed us to say that the sudden shut down of a giant book distributor is making public libraries scramble for books www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

could not agree more

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

“pure dystopian creep.” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...