Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
nature is healing: a restaurant near me that just opened a year ago but sucks and is offputting in every way is closing. and the narrative on instagram/reddit is "that place sucked," not "homelessness and crime and los angeles is impossible and and and and and"
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
nature is healing: a restaurant near me that just opened a year ago but sucks and is offputting in every way is closing. and the narrative on instagram/reddit is "that place sucked," not "homelessness and crime and los angeles is impossible and and and and and"
Was really fun to talk to the @eff.org about 404, Defector and indie media: youtu.be/19pQAkStncI
Gate Crashing | Episode 3: A New Path for Journalism | Jason Koebler and David Roth
YouTube video by EFForg
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December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Was really fun to talk to the @eff.org about 404, Defector and indie media: youtu.be/19pQAkStncI
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Episode 3 of Gate Crashing is out now! Tune in to our conversation with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media and @davidjroth.bsky.social of Defector about finding a new path forward for journalism: youtu.be/19pQAkStncI...
Gate Crashing | Episode 3: A New Path for Journalism | Jason Koebler and David Roth
We always hear about the death of journalism. But a few groups of people are fighting back and modeling a new path forward for journalism. We speak to Jason ...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Episode 3 of Gate Crashing is out now! Tune in to our conversation with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media and @davidjroth.bsky.social of Defector about finding a new path forward for journalism: youtu.be/19pQAkStncI...
We very rarely do sales at @404media.co but today is an exception so pls consider and get all this stuff:
www.404media.co/cyber-monday...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
We very rarely do sales at @404media.co but today is an exception so pls consider and get all this stuff:
www.404media.co/cyber-monday...
www.404media.co/cyber-monday...
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We're running a 💻 CYBER MONDAY 💻 sale. Get 25% off an annual subscription: access to all of our articles, podcasts, bonus content, FOIA Forum trainings, full text RSS feed, no ads, and support independent journalism. Get yours here: www.404media.co/cyber-monday...
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
We're running a 💻 CYBER MONDAY 💻 sale. Get 25% off an annual subscription: access to all of our articles, podcasts, bonus content, FOIA Forum trainings, full text RSS feed, no ads, and support independent journalism. Get yours here: www.404media.co/cyber-monday...
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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
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
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 cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using worke...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
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"The current disinformation and slop phenomenon on the internet today makes the days of ‘Russian bot farms’ seem quaint; the problem is now fully decentralized and distributed across the world and is almost entirely funded by social media companies themselves."
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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.
www.404media.co
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"The current disinformation and slop phenomenon on the internet today makes the days of ‘Russian bot farms’ seem quaint; the problem is now fully decentralized and distributed across the world and is almost entirely funded by social media companies themselves."
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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Guess who's behind X accounts like RedPilledNurse or Ivanka Trump News? People outside the US. And social media companies are rewarding the creators for it. @evystadium.bsky.social has more:
Full story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: www.404media.co/americas-pol...
Full story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: www.404media.co/americas-pol...
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Guess who's behind X accounts like RedPilledNurse or Ivanka Trump News? People outside the US. And social media companies are rewarding the creators for it. @evystadium.bsky.social has more:
Full story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: www.404media.co/americas-pol...
Full story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: www.404media.co/americas-pol...
my beefing days are pretty much over because v little good comes from it and beefing with people i don't know or really care about brings unwanted stress to my life but also there's soooooo much to clown on right now someday i will be brave
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
my beefing days are pretty much over because v little good comes from it and beefing with people i don't know or really care about brings unwanted stress to my life but also there's soooooo much to clown on right now someday i will be brave
Court Watch has been a critical resource and collaborator with us. Helps show the deeply serious but also offbeat things happening in the federal court system. It costs a lot to run because of how PACER works. Consider supporting/ subscribing here: www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Court Watch has been a critical resource and collaborator with us. Helps show the deeply serious but also offbeat things happening in the federal court system. It costs a lot to run because of how PACER works. Consider supporting/ subscribing here: www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
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X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
We are running our first reader survey, please consider taking it. It will help us out a lot as we plan what we want to do in 2026. I promise for karmic justice I will start doing surveys I'm asked to take
www.404media.co/please-pleas...
www.404media.co/please-pleas...
Please, please do our reader survey
It'll take just a minute and help 404 Media figure out how to grow sustainably.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We are running our first reader survey, please consider taking it. It will help us out a lot as we plan what we want to do in 2026. I promise for karmic justice I will start doing surveys I'm asked to take
www.404media.co/please-pleas...
www.404media.co/please-pleas...
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Thanks to @bcmerchant.bsky.social for laying it out. Thanks for @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social and their @404media.co colleagues for reporting it. We’ve all seen it. Time to actively oppose it when we can.
One way is a vision of what beings instead. Got some ideas below.
One way is a vision of what beings instead. Got some ideas below.
If 2023 was the year AI slop was embraced by spammers and social media influencers, and 2024 was the year the slop era began in earnest, 2025 was when slop became embedded in our cultural institutions and social spheres.
On the slop layer that we all must navigate now:
On the slop layer that we all must navigate now:
Lost in the slop layer
How AI has encrusted our culture and social sphere in a sedimentary layer of slop.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Thanks to @bcmerchant.bsky.social for laying it out. Thanks for @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social and their @404media.co colleagues for reporting it. We’ve all seen it. Time to actively oppose it when we can.
One way is a vision of what beings instead. Got some ideas below.
One way is a vision of what beings instead. Got some ideas below.
X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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I'm looking to talk to Tea users who were impacted by the hack we covered a few months ago. If you're one of those people please email me at [email protected] or hit me up on signal at @emanuel.404 www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...
How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I'm looking to talk to Tea users who were impacted by the hack we covered a few months ago. If you're one of those people please email me at [email protected] or hit me up on signal at @emanuel.404 www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...
Was an honor to have @hypervisible.blacksky.app on our podcast to talk about spying on ourselves, spying on each other, Flock, Ring, food delivery robots, and general surveillance culture:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBg...
How Big Tech Has Convinced Us to Surveil Ourselves and Each Other
YouTube video by 404 Media
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November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Was an honor to have @hypervisible.blacksky.app on our podcast to talk about spying on ourselves, spying on each other, Flock, Ring, food delivery robots, and general surveillance culture:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBg...
Cops all over the country used Flock to surveil No Kings protesters, public records show: www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Cops all over the country used Flock to surveil No Kings protesters, public records show: www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
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DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
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November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost.
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost.
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
very big story here: apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
very big story here: apnews.com/article/immi...
this is sick: www.404media.co/ukraine-is-j...
Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song
A few years ago, Putin hyped the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Now electronic warfare is knocking it out of the sky with music and some bad directions.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
this is sick: www.404media.co/ukraine-is-j...
ready for baseball season
November 20, 2025 at 5:26 AM
ready for baseball season
dude lol
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
dude lol