New from 404 Media: Meta is laying the narrative groundwork for Trump's mass deportations. Meta now says users can call migrants pieces of trash, vomit, etc. Multiple experts drew parallels to when Facebook contributed to a genocide in Myanmar. Now U.S.
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Meta Is Laying the Narrative Groundwork for Trump’s Mass Deportations
Multiple experts drew comparisons between Meta's recent changes around immigration and what happened in Myanmar in 2017, where Facebook contributed...
New: this OnlyFans model publishes her machine learning explainers to both YouTube and Pornhub. Although YouTube may get a million views, that'll generate around $300. The same content posted to Pornhub, with ~30k views, makes $1000. We spoke to her
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Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub
Justice Alito should watch this Pornhub video about calculus.
Breaking: FTC is suing tractor maker John Deere over its repair monopoly. For years we've reported how farmers unable to do many repairs due to software locks, and takes days for Deere to do anything, impacting working farmers. FTC now acting
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FTC Sues John Deere Over Its Repair Monopoly
Deere "has illegally restricted the ability of farmers and independent technicians to repair Deere equipment, including tractors and combines."
New from 404 Media: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary messenger themes. Comes amid Meta's now allowing users to target trans and gay people, and as Musk says Facebook lifting restrictions on "mainstream discourse"
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Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
New from 404 Media: data hacked from location giant Gravy reveals thousands of ordinary apps hijacked to steal your location data. Candy Crush, MyFitnessPal, Tinder. Period trackers, prayer apps. Because of how data collected, apps may not even know
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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the ...
Thank you Gizmodo for including my perspective on why Musk is an ARPG poser and is probably cheating at Diablo IV, Path of Exile 2. Very very on brand.
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‘Path of Exile 2’ Players Call Bullshit on Elon Musk’s Video Game Stream
The world’s richest man claims he’s playing the game at the highest level. But that’s only true if you have no idea what’s going on.
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New: Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship. Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.
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Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship
Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in fro...
404 Media is back for the new year, and just *today* we have published multiple scoops with only four of us reporting, writing, editing. First: Facebook is censoring its own employees' criticism of hire of UFC head, according to internal messages we got
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Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White
"Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE."
 Second: hackers have claimed a massive breach of location data company Gravy. This is a beating heart of worldwide phone monitoring, and provides data to the U.S. government. It's a "nightmare" scenario
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Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data
Gravy Analytics has been one of the most important companies in the location data industry for years, collating smartphone location data from aroun...
 Third today: police automatic license plate readers are accidentally exposing live feeds to the open internet. So a privacy advocate built a tool that automatically scans the plates and puts them in a spreadsheet to highlight the risk these cameras pose
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Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool
Privacy advocate draws attention to the fact that hundreds of police surveillance cameras are streaming directly to the open internet.
 Fourth: People are using AI video generator Runway to post extremely violent Minionfied videos to social media. Unfortunately what people are actually using AI for!
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‘Minion Gore’ Videos Use AI to Post Murder to Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
People are using AI video generator Runway to post extremely violent Minionfied videos to social media.
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New from 404 Media: Facebook is deleting internal employee criticism of its new board hire UFC president and CEO Dana White. Facebook also deleting internal employee posts asking why the first ones deleted
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Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White
"Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE."
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New: Instagram has begun testing a feature in which Meta’s AI will automatically generate images of users in various situations and put them into that user’s feed. We confirmed with Meta it's real.
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Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves
Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.