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Jason Koebler
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Journalist , former EIC Signal: 1-202-505-1702 // email: jason@404media.co
ESR404media.coJoined October 2008

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SCOOP: Uvalde and Uvalde Police have hired a private law firm to fight against being required to release body camera footage and other records related to school shooting Files could be 'highly embarrassing,' involve 'emotional/mental distress,' it argues
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So: Taxpayers: - pay for the police - pay the private lawyers to defend the police when the police are bad - pay for the private lawyers to prevent the release of public records - pay for the investigation into the police and any litigation that arises - pay out any damages
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NEW: Thousands of Amazon workers in 12 countries are protesting on Black Friday, from garment manufacturers and call center employees to warehouse workers all over. Biggest coordinated international labor action thus far
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SCOOP: The U.S. Military is buying user location data harvested from a Muslim prayer app that has been downloaded by 98 million people around the world, is using this type of data for "counterterrorism"
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To be clear pornhub just deleted like 60% of all videos on one of the largest porn sites on the internet by flipping a switch
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Over the weekend, a verified account posing as FTX founder SBF posted dozens of copies of this deepfake video offering FTX users "compensation for the loss" in a phishing scam designed to drain their crypto wallets
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NEW: Amazon has shut down one of its best-organized warehouses and is moving the workers to separate warehouses, where they will be forced to work a "Megacycle" shift, in which workers come in at 1 am and leave at noon
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We've obtained the chats Facebook gave to police in Nebraska to help them prosecute a 17-year-old and her mother for the crime of "abortion," as well as the search warrants and court records used to obtain her chats
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this exact robot is being used by cops in Hawaii right now to patrol homeless encampments vice.com/en/article/wx5
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Imagine what AI powered machines will be able to do in the next 5-10 years. Boston Dynamics machines flawlessly and soulfully dancing in rhythm. twitter.com/insta_science/
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Horrifying story out of Oregon. This woman called 911 for domestic violence. Cops showed up, harassed her, and a few days later one returned to her house and raped her. When she demanded justice in front of PD building, *she* was the one who was arrested
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The app, called Muslim Pro, collects user location data to tell them what time to pray and which direction Mecca is in. It then sells that data to a company called X-Mode, which sells to U.S. military contractors
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I think a key thing to flag here is the view expressed by this twitter employee should not be controversial, but Twitter is so worried about upsetting conservative politicians that it won't publicly touch this argument with a 10-foot pole
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Underappreciated aspect of Twitter exodus is this: Elon just bought every employee's equity at inflated price of $54/share. He then asked if they want to work "extremely hardcore" or take their large pile of cash + 3 months of pay and leave the shitshow
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i don't have any real thought as to what the rule SHOULD be. but, the things people say about the most powerful man in the world should be scrutinized less than, say, the things people say to private citizens, especially women and Black people and queer people on this site
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NEW: Salaat First, an app used by millions of Muslims for prayer times and to determine the direction of Mecca, tracked the precise movements of its users and sold them to a supply chain that was at one point connected to ICE and DHS.
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Twitter has done a horrible job of policing death threats and targeted harassment for like, a decade. Its moderation system is more automated than FB or YT and it takes moderation less seriously than them (my opinion, based on talking to the people in charge)
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In 2018, John Deere and other tractor manufacturers promised that, starting Jan 1, 2021, it would make repair tools and diagnostic software easily available to all farmers. It said this made right-to-repair legislation unnecessary. It's 2021. Deere lied.
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email is in direct contradiction with what Postmaster DeJoy said two days ago. this email or an email like it (we saw two versions) seemingly went to every maintenance head around the country
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this is not unreasonable, GE’s Healthcare division is already one of the largest manufacturers of ventilators in the country. It has also lobbied against efforts that would make them easier to repair
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Rebekah Jones has claimed that her son was the target of a politically-motivated arrest at the hands of Ron DeSantis. The police report and the evidence suggest that he made multiple credible threats to shoot up his former school:
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OK, we talked to another hacker. Were able to confirm how they got accounts: Twitter employee used internal tool to change email addresses associated with accounts. Twitter seems to have just confirmed this in tweets as well
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NEW: Two men walked into a Trader Joe's in Manhattan, refused to wear a mask and when confronted went ballistic. Bashed in the head of a worker with a wooden cash register oar, pulled hair of an employee, ripped off employees' masks
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we spoke to two hackers and we were able to independently verify they were in control of hijacked accounts today. One of them said they paid the Twitter employee to help them take over accounts; not sure on the specifics here at the moment
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yesterday an Amazon job listing for a private investigator to spy on union organizers was "an error." Then we found that Amazon already has a secret, sophisticated program and team dedicated to spying on its workers Facebook posts:
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NEW: We obtained an internal police doc about driverless car programs that says they are "recording their surroundings continuously," footage is available to cops, and that it's been used for investigations. Driverless cars are persistent moving spy cams
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Our fan page, the New York Times, wrote this more than 48 hours after us and used this headline and didn’t link, which is interesting because our article has been viewed nearly a million times, apparently by no one who works at that website
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Twitter says it will either delete or make you remove tweets that say you hope Trump dies from COVID and will possibly put your account into "read only" mode for an unspecified amount of time and adds that if you call this a "suspension" it will get mad
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SCOOP: Tesla makes its self-driving beta testers sign an NDA acknowledging there are "a lot of people that want Tesla to fail" and instructing them to be careful about posting footage to social media that could make the tech and the company look bad
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