The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week - something very strange is happening with Apple Podcasts - someone changed a map of Ukraine seemingly related to a Polymarket bet - subscribers: half the US now requires face/ID scans to watch porn Subscribe on YouTube here:

Half of the U.S. now requires you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch porn. Obviously creates a massive risk handing over this personal data. We've already seen this with the Discord hack which impacted ID photos, etc

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Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country.

So it sure looks like someone invented a fake Russian advance in Ukraine to manipulate the online gambling market Polymarket. Gamblers are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war. Edited map is run by DC-based think tank

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'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting

It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.

Something very strange is happening to the Apple Podcasts app. Over the last few months I’ve found the Podcasts app will randomly open religion/spirituality podcasts. Sometimes app opens by itself and directs people to potentially malicious website. Apple no response

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Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts

For months Apple Podcasts has been randomly opening spirituality and religion podcasts by itself, and in one case directing listeners to a potentia...

New from 404 Media: Flock is using overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI. Flock has cameras in thousands of communities around the US which can detect vehicles and people. We found gig workers in the Philippines are reviewing footage to classify people

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Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI

Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cam...

I spoke to Michael Bobbitt, a former FBI official about how the FBI secretly ran an encrypted phone for criminals, backdoored it, and collected tens of millions of messages. Bobbitt was helping funnel intelligence from US to European authorities Watch here:

The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week - a massive breach reveals people using an AI chatbot to make porn from women's yearbook photos - how America became the world's side hustle with social media spamming - how we helped shut down a warrantless surveillance program

Here is the video for our latest FOIA Forum, where we told you how to get information about Flock from your local agencies/government. Includes network audits, which are the files that show why exactly cops are using the cameras (helping ICE, for example):

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Here's the Video for Our Seventh FOIA Forum: Flock

Here is the archived video of our FOIA Forum about how to do reporting on Flock.

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New from 404 Media: X has shown where accounts are actually being run from, revealing many MAGA accounts are actually grifters in Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. But the situation is much, much worse. Entire guides specifically on how to squeeze US audiences with AI.

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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.