Joseph speaks to Craig Silverman, one of the co-founders of Indicator. Indicator is a new, independent media company that Craig runs with Alexios Mantzarlis. For years Craig has covered the world of ad fraud and disinformation using all sorts of open source intelligence (OSINT) techniques. Definitely check out Indicator at Indicator.media. The site publishes its…
âThis is so fucking stressful,â Jason said. On a group call, all four of usâJason, Sam, Emanuel, and meâwere bidding on something that had long eluded us. 404media.com. Not the .co domain we launched with two years ago because thatâs all we could afford. But a fully-fledged .com. That September day I was on holiday…
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss our recommendations for the year. SAM: Whenever we shout out a podcast, book, TV show, or other media or consumable product on our own podcast or in…
đ Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists have discovered a hotspot of weird marine life more than two miles underwater in the Arctic, making it the deepest known example of an environment called a gas hydrate cold…
We start this week with Jasonâs story about Flock exposing a bunch of AI-powered cameras. These cameras zoom in on people as they walk by, sometimes so closely you can read whatâs on their phone screen. After the break, we talk about some of our biggest stories this year. In the subscribers-only section, we give…
Archivists have saved and uploaded copies of the 60 Minutes episode new CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss ordered be shelved as a torrent and multiple file sharing sites after an international distributor aired the episode. The moves show how difficult it may be for CBS to stop the episode, which focused on the experience of Venezuelans…
Marisa Kabas is the founder of The Handbasket, an independent newsletter and website that has been breaking stories left and right about government workers, the media business, and Trumpâs mass deportation campaign. Please go subscribe to The Handbasket here! In this episode of the podcast, Jason and Marisa share notes Marisa about doing journalism without…
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss history repeating itself and Meta’s relationship with links. JOSEPH: I wanted to add a little bit from behind the scenes of this piece: Man Charged for Wiping…
Thursday afternoon House Democrats publicly released a new trove of photographs theyâve obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein via Dropbox. They left the comments on so anyone who is signed into Dropbox and browsing the material can leave behind their thoughts. Given that the investigation into Epstein is one of the most closely followed…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a company that makes âAI agentsâ to rapidly track down targets. The company claims the âskip tracingâ AI agents help agencies find people of interest and map out their family and other associates more quickly. According to the procurement records, the companyâs…
