The 404 Media Podcast
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The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams
May 13, 20261h 4m
How the World Became a Casino (With Natasha Schüll)
May 11, 202649 min
Flock Used Cameras at a Children’s Gymnastics Center for a Sales Pitch
May 6, 202658 min
The New Luddites: Why People Are Destroying Surveillance and AI Infrastructure
May 4, 202652 min
How This Trippy Image Started A Massive Conspiracy Theory
Apr 29, 202647 min
Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals' Hands (with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
Apr 27, 202651 min
How Algorithms Make Us Feel Bad and Weird
Apr 22, 202658 min
Why Journalists Are Leaving Big Media (with Maddy Myers)
Apr 20, 202655 min
How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages
Apr 16, 202644 min
How the Internet Became Hell (with Whitney Phillips)
Apr 13, 20261h 4m
Wildlife Cops Are Searching AI Cameras for ICE
Apr 8, 202650 min
The Lawyer Fighting Government Surveillance for 30 Years (With EFF's Cindy Cohn)
Apr 6, 202654 min
Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars
Apr 1, 202652 min
The Journalist Who Tracked Epstein Island Visitors’ Phones
Mar 30, 202643 min
The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts
Mar 25, 202645 min
The Marketing Tricks of "Artificial Intelligence"
Mar 23, 202649 min
The Disappearing DOGE Depositions
Mar 18, 202647 min
Google Street View's Unmappable City
Mar 16, 202617 min
How to Talk to Your Friend Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
Mar 11, 202644 min
Understanding Roblox’s Grooming Problem
Mar 9, 202648 min
The Depravity Economy
Mar 4, 202657 min
How to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin)
Mar 2, 202654 min
Ring Is Just Getting Started
Feb 25, 202653 min
Privacy Under Pressure (With Harlo Holmes)
Feb 23, 202644 min
Inside an AI-Powered School
Feb 18, 20261h 0m
What It’s Like to Be a Data Labeler Training AI
Feb 16, 202649 min
Ring Is Back and Scarier Than Ever
Feb 11, 202650 min
The Screen Time Panic Sets Parents Up to Fail
Feb 9, 20261h 25m
The Latest Epstein Dump is a Disaster
Feb 4, 202655 min
How Identity Literally Changes What You See (with Samuel Bagg)
Feb 2, 202650 min
Creators Worry Porn Platform Is Falling Into ‘AI Psychosis’
Jan 28, 202649 min
Exposing the People Behind Deepfake Porn Sites with Bellingcat Investigator Kolina Koltai
Jan 26, 202652 min
Here’s What Palantir Is Really Building
Jan 21, 202644 min
How Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI (With Wikipedia’s CTO Selena Deckelmann)
Jan 19, 202654 min
The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods
Jan 14, 202642 min
How Benn Jordan Discovered Flock's Cameras Were Left Streaming to the Internet
Jan 12, 202638 min
The People Tracking America's AI Data Centers
Jan 7, 202651 min
REPLAY: Pornhub Exec Alexzandra Kekesi Discusses Pulling Out of the South, Trad Wives, and Feet Pics
Jan 5, 202656 min
REPLAY: Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI
Dec 31, 202549 min
The Shifting World of OSINT (with Craig Silverman)
Dec 29, 202546 min
We Tracked Ourselves with Exposed Flock Cameras
Dec 24, 202553 min
Landing Big Scoops as an Indie Journalist (with Marisa Kabas)
Dec 22, 202543 min
Is Wiping a Phone a Crime?
Dec 17, 202547 min
Why Are We Obsessed With Aliens? (With Becky Ferreira)
Dec 15, 20251h 5m
Zines Are Back
Dec 10, 202541 min
How AI Porn Isolates Us with Noelle Perdue
Dec 8, 202556 min
This Podcast Will Hack You
Dec 3, 202541 min
Inside the Biggest Sting Operation Ever (with Michael Bobbitt)
Dec 1, 202551 min
A Massive Breach Reveals the Truth Behind 'Secret Desires AI'
Nov 26, 202555 min
Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)
Nov 24, 20251h 2m