Hope everyone is having a nice Labor Day weekend. If you're traveling this weekend, it's a good time to catch up on this week's episode of the 404 Media Podcast, where we try to explain messaging app Telegram's place in the broader social media ecosystem, and the fact that Telegram seems to find itself at the center of most of the cybercrime we report on.
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Then, we discuss whether our devices are actually listening to us to advertise to us, based on a leaked presentation Joseph got that shows a pitch for "active listening" advertising based on microphone data. In the subscriber's only section, we talk about a new study that shows AI-generated CSAM is more common than you think. Stories discussed: How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr
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