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Joseph Cox

@josephcox
46 posts
2026-03-04
Today a group of ~70 lawmakers are urging the oversight body of DHS to investigate ICE's location data purchase we recently revealed.  DHS previously ICE, CBP, Secret Service all used the data illegally.  Letter says ICE is stonewalling congressional oversight www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...  [image]
2026-03-04 View on X
404 Media

An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' precise movements over time …

2026-03-03
New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document.  Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
2026-03-03 View on X
404 Media

An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools

An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.

2026-02-26
New: the FBI got Grok to hand over the prompts a suspect used to generate nonconsensual porn.  Connected to a harassment case.  Pretty rare to see a Grok search warrant like this  —  www.404media.co/fbi-subpoena...
2026-02-26 View on X
404 Media

Court records: the FBI subpoenaed X for details about Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create 200+ sexual deepfakes of a woman he knew in real life

2026-02-25
New: the FBI got Grok to hand over the prompts a suspect used to generate nonconsensual porn.  Connected to a harassment case.  Pretty rare to see a Grok search warrant like this  —  www.404media.co/fbi-subpoena...
2026-02-25 View on X
404 Media

Court records: the FBI subpoenaed X for details about Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create 200+ sexual deepfakes of a woman he knew in real life

This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records.  Subscribe to them here.

2026-02-22
“I feel like, increasingly, it's impossible to talk to a single human [at Pinterest],” Pinterest user Tiana Oreglia said.  “Along with being filled with AI images that have been completely ruining the platform, Pinterest has implemented terrible AI moderation” www.404media.co/pinterest-is...
2026-02-22 View on X
404 Media

Pinterest users, especially artists, say the platform has gotten worse in the past year due to AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI features

2026-02-21
“I feel like, increasingly, it's impossible to talk to a single human [at Pinterest],” Pinterest user Tiana Oreglia said.  “Along with being filled with AI images that have been completely ruining the platform, Pinterest has implemented terrible AI moderation” www.404media.co/pinterest-is...
2026-02-21 View on X
404 Media

Pinterest users, especially artists, say the platform has gotten worse in the past year due to AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI features

Users are exhausted fighting AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI-first features.  —  Pinterest has gone all in on artificial intelligence and users say it's destroying the site...

2026-02-13
The Tumbler Ridge shooter created a mall shooting simulator in Roblox.  “We have removed the user account connected to this horrifying incident as well as any content associated with the suspect,” Roblox told 404 Media www.404media.co/tumbler-ridg...
2026-02-13 View on X
404 Media

The suspect believed to be behind the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada made a Roblox game simulating a mall shooting; Roblox says it removed the account

Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old suspected of killing eight people and injuring 25 in a mass shooting in a secondary school in Canada …

2025-12-02
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  —  www.404media.co/unauthorized...
2025-12-02 View on X
404 Media

Polymarket's Ukraine war betting, based on ISW's map, generated $1M+ in volume for “Will Russia capture Myrnohrad?”; an “unauthorized” map edit resolved the bet

A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15.

2025-11-25
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.  —  www.404media.co/americas-pol...
2025-11-25 View on X
Techdirt

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not “censorship” of viewpoints

from the it's-almost-as-if-there-are-some-bad- actors-online dept  —  For the last few years, Matt Taibbi …

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.  —  www.404media.co/americas-pol...
2025-11-25 View on X
404 Media

X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle

www.404media.co/americas-pol... @casuallylucid : “The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a f*ck about this.”  —  Our attention is t...

2025-10-17
Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that's on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site  —  www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
2025-10-17 View on X
404 Media

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline …

Senator Wyden says local officials can best protect their constituents from Flock abuses by removing the cameras entirely www.404media.co/ice-secret-s...  [image]
2025-10-17 View on X
TechCrunch

Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users for “evidence collection and investigative work”

Amazon's surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras …

New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials.  I went through the data.  In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.  —  “Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”  —  www.404media.co/hackers-dox- ...
2025-10-17 View on X
404 Media

Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts the alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of US DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials on Telegram

A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years …

ICE had access to a nationwide network of AI-enabled surveillance cameras that constantly track vehicles', and by extension peoples, movements without a warrant www.404media.co/ice-secret-s...
2025-10-17 View on X
TechCrunch

Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users for “evidence collection and investigative work”

Amazon's surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras …

2025-10-09
New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses.  Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to “preserve evidence until it can be used in court.”  Videos from TikTok etc.  Every submission manually reviewed  —  www.404media.co/apple-banned...
2025-10-09 View on X
404 Media

Apple removes Eyes Up, which simply archives videos of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, Eyes Up doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations

and it's not masked agents of ICE www.404media.co/apple-banned... Benn Jordan / @bennjordan : Your smartphone manufacturer doesn't think you deserve 1st or 4th amendment rights.  —...

If you scroll through the videos, tons are just rips from TikTok, Instagram, etc.  It's probably stuff you've already seen.  Some are even local and national media reports, like NBC News.  —  www.404media.co/apple-banned...  [images]
2025-10-09 View on X
404 Media

Apple removes Eyes Up, which simply archives videos of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, Eyes Up doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations

and it's not masked agents of ICE www.404media.co/apple-banned... Benn Jordan / @bennjordan : Your smartphone manufacturer doesn't think you deserve 1st or 4th amendment rights.  —...

2025-08-18
Grok is exposing the underlying prompts for its AI personas, including such commands as “BE FUCKING UNHINGED AND CRAZY.  COME UP WITH INSANE IDEAS.  GUYS JERKING OFF, OCCASIONALLY EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS, WHATEVER IT TAKES TO SURPRISE THE HUMAN.”  —  www.404media.co/grok-exposes...
2025-08-18 View on X
404 Media

Grok's website is exposing the underlying prompts for its AI personas, including one for a “crazy conspiracist” persona that spends “a lot of time on 4chan”

The website for Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is exposing the underlying prompts for a wealth of its AI personas …

2025-07-29
We verified the Tea direct messages by taking usernames from the list and trying to make accounts on Tea with them.  This wasn't possible because the usernames already existed, meaning the data relates to real Tea users www.404media.co/a-second-tea...  [image]
2025-07-29 View on X
9to5Mac

Tea, which claims to make dating safer for women, is the #2 app in the US App Store, despite multiple security flaws exposing private chats, photo IDs, and more

Two major security vulnerabilities in the Tea app - which claims to make dating safer for women - have exposed the private chats …

We verified the Tea direct messages by taking usernames from the list and trying to make accounts on Tea with them.  This wasn't possible because the usernames already existed, meaning the data relates to real Tea users www.404media.co/a-second-tea...  [image]
2025-07-29 View on X
404 Media

A second security breach at women's safety app Tea exposes 1.1M+ user messages, dating from early 2023 up to last week, many containing sensitive information

A second, major security issue with women's dating safety app Tea has exposed much more user data than the first breach we first reported …

2025-07-24
Google's AI summaries are  — killing traffic to legitimate sites  — producing summaries that can be wrong  — in the long run probably making you a dumbass  —  www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
2025-07-24 View on X
404 Media

Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators

Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found …