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Hey there, Joseph here with an update on the impact that 404 Media has had in the last few months. If you've been following us for a while, you know we are the most impactful tech publication on the internet. We've shutdown surveillance companies, forced AI companies to introduce radical safety measures, and got Big Tech to make Big Changes as well. All of this is with a team of just four people, not a massive newsroom inside some faceless corporation. And it's only possible because of our paying subscribers. To celebrate our latest impact, we're offering you the chance to subscribe to 404 Media with a 20% discount for the year. So instead of paying $100, you pay $80. Get that offer here. Here are some of our most recent things: - A public library ebook service said it was going to cull AI slop after Emanuel found low quality books were flooding libraries.
- GeoSpy, an AI tool that let anyone geolocate photos in seconds and whose users could include stalkers, dramatically restricted access after Joseph published an investigation into it.
- Nvidia was sued after Sam revealed the company scraped YouTube and other sites en masse to build its own AI systems.
- Congress repeatedly grilled Apple and Meta over their association with nonconsensual nudify and deepfake apps after Emanuel exposed the connections.
- Then just today, we learned phone forensics company Cellebrite was stopping service in Serbia following an Amnesty International research project and 404 Media's coverage of abuses in the country.
Again, here is your 20% discount. As a reminder, here is what you get as a paid subscriber: - Unlimited access to our articles, ad-free.
- Commenting privileges on the site (the best of which we publish in our newsletter and respond to on a subscribers-only podcast).
- Access to "Behind The Blog" content where we write about how we reported our stories.
- Ad-free version of, and early access to, our weekly podcast.
- Bonus podcast content every week as well as other bonus episodes.
- Access to “404 FOIA Forum,” a community where we listen to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ideas, and teach you how to file effective requests.
Thank you for supporting our mission. We have a lot, lot more to come, and hope you'll stick around for that too. Sincerely, 404 Media (Joseph, Sam, Emanuel, and Jason)
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