Podcast: Cops Are Using AI Bots to Surveil People

We start this week with Emanuel and Jason’s big story on Massive Blue, a company that is selling AI-powered undercover bots posing as protesters and children to the cops. After the break, Sam tells us about visiting the millennial saint. In the subscribers-only section, we talk business and the state of 404 Media.

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• Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
• ICE Plans Central Database of Health, Labor, Housing Agency Data to Find Targets
• This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
• I Went to See ‘God’s Influencer,’ the Millennial Saint Carlo Acutis
• How 404 Media Is Navigating ‘Economic Headwinds’