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404 Media has published the full user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE to bring up addresses for deportation targets. We are not publishing the original document for source protection reasons, retyped a version you can see on 404media.co along with recreations of images in the guide (some of the images in the original are blurred). Senator Ron Wyden previously told 404 Media in a statement, “The fact ICE is using this app proves the completely indiscriminate nature of the agency's

404 Media has published the full user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE to bring up addresses for deportation targets. We are not publishing the original document for source protection reasons, retyped a version you can see on 404media.co along with recreations of images in the guide (some of the images in the original are blurred). Senator Ron Wyden previously told 404 Media in a statement, “The fact ICE is using this app proves the completely indiscriminate nature of the agency's

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Palantir develops app to help ICE pinpoint neighborhoods for immigration raids, reports 404 Media

Palantir develops app to help ICE pinpoint neighborhoods for immigration raids, reports 404 Media

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404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps. Full story at 404media.co our bio and story and how to help us. #ice #gov #trump #lawsuit #404media #foia #privacy #surveillance #tech #news | 404 Media

404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps. Full story at 404media.co our bio and story and how to help us. #ice #gov #trump #lawsuit #404media #foia #privacy #surveillance #tech #news | 404 Media

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ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media. “I am sure PIs, bounty hunters, process servers, and anyone with access to commercial databases can apply and will,” Igor Ostrovskiy, an experienced private investigator told 404 Media. “Money is money and people will jump at the oppor

ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media. “I am sure PIs, bounty hunters, process servers, and anyone with access to commercial databases can apply and will,” Igor Ostrovskiy, an experienced private investigator told 404 Media. “Money is money and people will jump at the oppor

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The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. These are posted by an account called “USA Journey 897” and have the general vibe of actual propaganda videos posted by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security’s social media accounts. Many of the AI videos focus on workplace deportations, but some are similar to horrifying, real videos we have seen from ICE raids in Chicago and Los Angeles. The account was initially flagged to 404 Media by

The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. These are posted by an account called “USA Journey 897” and have the general vibe of actual propaganda videos posted by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security’s social media accounts. Many of the AI videos focus on workplace deportations, but some are similar to horrifying, real videos we have seen from ICE raids in Chicago and Los Angeles. The account was initially flagged to 404 Media by

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If you’re wondering why 404 Media decided to cover a story about an Anthropic executive forcing the company’s AI chatbot on a Discord community for gay gamers, we get into it in our latest podcast episode. Jason Clinton, the Chief Information Security Officer at Anthropic unleashed Claude into the Discord on Thanksgiving despite an earlier poll in the community that voted to limit its access. When members protested, he responded by saying that chatbots have emotion. Head to 404media.co for more.

If you’re wondering why 404 Media decided to cover a story about an Anthropic executive forcing the company’s AI chatbot on a Discord community for gay gamers, we get into it in our latest podcast episode. Jason Clinton, the Chief Information Security Officer at Anthropic unleashed Claude into the Discord on Thanksgiving despite an earlier poll in the community that voted to limit its access. When members protested, he responded by saying that chatbots have emotion. Head to 404media.co for more.

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What happens when you track down the man behind two deepfake porn sites? Well in Kolina Koltai’s experience as an investigator, senior researcher and trainer at Bellingcat: they run. From the Bellingcat article: “Depending on which of his social media profiles you were looking at, Mark Resan was either a marketing lead at Google or working for a dental implant company, a human resources company and a business software firm – all at the same time. But a Bellingcat investigation has found that the

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Over the last few months 404 Media has covered some concerning but predictable uses for the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which are equipped with a built-in camera, and for some models, AI. Aftermarket hobbyists have modified the glasses to add a facial recognition feature that could quietly dox whatever face a user is looking at, and they have been worn by CBP agents during the immigration raids that have come to define a new low for human rights in the United States. Most recently, exploitative Instag

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Jesus Gutiérrez’s experience, which he recounted to @revealnews, is one snapshot of something that federal authorities have acknowledged to 404 Media that they are doing across the country: scanning people’s faces with a facial recognition app that brings up their name, date of birth, “alien number” if they’re an immigrant, and whether they have an order of deportation. 404 Media previously obtained internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement emails revealing the agency’s facial recognition app

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Meta’s director of safety and alignment at its “superintelligence” lab, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes and called it a “rookie mistake.” @evystadium has more. Read at 404media.co | 404 Media

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The affidavit notes that, in January, the FBI got a search warrant for the Simon Tuck’s alleged conversations with Grok. The FBI says that it received “prompts provided to GrokAI that generated approximately 200 pornographic videos of a woman who closely resembled VICTIM’s wife’s physical appearance.” Most importantly, it highlights X’s role in allowing Grok to create nonconsensual sexual material in a criminal case that involves extreme cyberstalking and real life harm. According to the affidav

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In posts on ManyVids, the porn platform’s official account holds imaginary conversations with aliens, alongside AI-generated videos of UFOs, fractal images, “angel numbers,” and a video of its founder and CEO Bella French in a space suit shooting lasers from her eyes. French launched the site in 2014 as a former cam model herself, and the platform has millions of members and tens of thousands of creators. Adult content creators use it to sell custom videos and subscriptions, and perform live on

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Do you use Signal's messaging app to communicate with loved ones? In this special interview episode, 404 Media speaks with Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation. We sat down with Whittaker to talk all about the state of Signal today, the threat of AI to end-to-end encryption, what backdoors actually look like, and much more. This is a wide-ranging discussion where 404's Joseph Cox, one of the few journalists who has revealed new details about backdoors, gets to speak to one

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A new feature on X is making people suddenly realize that some large portion of the divisive, hateful, and spammy content designed to inflame tensions or, at the very least, is designed to get lots of engagement on social media, is being published by accounts that are pretending to be based in the United States but are actually being run by people in countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam, India, Cambodia, Russia, and other countries. An account called “Ivanka News” is based in Nigeria, “RedPilledNu

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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local or regional law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement, 404 Media has learned. The news follows Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of another internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) app called Mobile Fortify that uses facial recognition to nearly instantly bring up someone’s name, date of birth, alien number, and whe

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The exact circumstances around the search are not known. But activist Samuel Tunick is charged with deleting data from a Google Pixel before CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team could search it. Tunick was arrested earlier this month, according to a post on a crowd-funding site and court records. “Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta-based activist, Oberlin graduate, and beloved musician, was arrested by the DHS and FBI yesterday around 6pm EST. Tunick’s friends describe him as an approachable, empatheti

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For years Craig Silverman has covered the world of ad fraud and disinformation using all sorts of open source intelligence (OSINT) techniques. As one of the co-founders of independent media company the Indicator, he speaks to 404 Media about disinformation, if fact-checking even matters in the Trump era, and investigating digital deception. Also, definitely check out Indicator at Indicator.media. The site publishes its own investigations but also tips and tricks you can use yourself. Head to 404

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A police officer in Colorado used evidence from Flock cameras to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman for package theft, then yelled at her on the phone when she told him she had evidence that exonerated her, according to body camera footage obtained by 404 Media. The nightmare situation happened in September in Columbine Valley, Colorado and was first reported by The Colorado Sun, which obtained Ring camera footage from the woman, Chrisanna Elser, that showed an initial interaction with Sergeant

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A sneak peek into next week’s episode: 404 Media’s @samleecole is in conversation with Kolina Koltai. Kolina is an investigator, senior researcher and trainer at @bellingcatofficial. Her investigations focus on the people and systems behind AI companies and platforms that peddle non-consensual deepfake explicit imagery. This includes how these sites—like Elon Musk’s X—actually profit off AI-generated CSAM without consequence. In the episode, we discuss how Koltai found herself in this field, her

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Palantir develops app to help ICE pinpoint neighborhoods for immigration raids, reports 404 Media

Over the weekend, 404 Media told the Department of Justice that they leaked unredacted photos of women and girls in sexual poses in the latest Epstein dump. 404 Media’s Emanuel Maiberg talks about how we reported it and why we held the story until the DOJ actually removed the images that contained potential CSAM. Head to 404 Media’s YouTube page for more or wherever you listen to your fave podcasts. | 404 Media

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The graphic video as reviewed by 404 Media: A maroon Honda Pilot SUV sits perpendicular across a residential road in Minneapolis. At the time, federal authorities were in the neighborhood as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) recently announced surge of thousands of officials. A silver Nissan Titan drives up the road and stops because the Honda is blocking its path. Two officers dressed in body armor, pouches, and badges saying “police” exit the Nissan. The two people walk towar

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