Jason Koebler

@jason_koebler

Journalist @404mediaco, former EIC @motherboard Signal: jason.404 // email: [email protected]

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Joined October 2008

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jun 20

Spending the next 2-3 hours shipping merch! If you order now your order will ship today. Tank tops and horse shirts back in stock! 404media.myshopify.com/products/doom-…

jason_koebler's tweet card. They put Doom on a tank top. Features Doom code excerpt (not playable on tank top). Printed on a Comfort Colors 9360 unisex tank top

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jul 17

The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this stuff is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive" 404media.co/the-astronomer…

jason_koebler's tweet card. Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jul 17

This is truly wild: @josephcox.bsky.social got the user manual for ICE's new facial recognition app, which appears to be one of the most powerful face rec systems because it is connected to tons of different government databases and surveillance systems 404media.co/inside-ices-su…

jason_koebler's tweet card. 404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just...

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jul 17

SCOOP: The manifests for three legally contested deportation flights to El Salvador contain the names of dozens of people who have not been acknowledged in any way by the US government. Experts following the case say they don't know where these people are 404media.co/flight-manifes…

jason_koebler's tweet card. Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even...

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jul 15

Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg did a two-minute interview about AI superintelligence but there were audio issues with the livestream, resulting in a completely silent video. I attempted to use the amazing, incredible power of AI to rescue this lost artifact: 404media.co/saving-the-los…

jason_koebler's tweet card. Nearly two minutes of Mark Zuckerberg's thoughts about AI have been lost to the sands of time. Can Meta's all-powerful AI recover this artifact?

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jul 15

All American trains have a vulnerability where a hacker can remotely trigger the brakes over radio frequency. A researcher has been warning about this for 13 years and the government has FINALLY acknowledged it’s real and is making rail companies fix it: 404media.co/hackers-can-re…

jason_koebler's tweet card. “All of the knowledge to generate the exploit already exists on the internet. AI could even build it for you,” the researcher told 404 Media.

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jul 14

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it won't work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms: 404media.co/the-medias-piv…

jason_koebler's tweet card. AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jun 26

NEW: ICE is using a facial recognition smartphone app that pulls faces from CBP's database of people who cross the border: 404media.co/ice-is-using-a…

jason_koebler's tweet card. The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is...

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Paris Marx@parismarx · Jun 25

The United States wants the unilateral authority to decide who should use certain technologies. In a new piece, I go from Iran to Andor to discuss how US tech supremacy gives it power over others that it’s working hard to maintain — to our detriment. disconnect.blog/p/why-should-t…

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jun 24

if you missed our FOIA Forum last week, where we talk about how we do public records reporting and how you can too, the archive is here: 404media.co/heres-the-vide…

jason_koebler's tweet card. Here is the video archive for our FOIA Forum where we explained how we got records about Massive Blue, a company selling AI personas to cops.

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jun 23

Was very excited when Last Week Tonight asked @404media.co to help out with research/fact checking for an AI Slop segment that ran last night. I thought it turned out very good! Here's a few mentions of our reporting, and the full segment: youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1R…

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jun 18

In 15 mins we're doing a FOIA FORUM about how we reported a story about cops using AI-powered sockpuppet bots on social media. This is for subscribers only, we'll be taking questions about FOIA, showing examples of our requests, etc. Come hang out! 404media.co/our-new-foia-f…

jason_koebler's tweet card. Come learn how we got records all about an AI company working with cops.

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jun 16

Trump mobile going extremely well: 404media.co/trump-mobile-p…

jason_koebler's tweet card. I got a confirmation email saying I'll get another confirmation when it's shipped. But I haven't provided a shipping address.

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jun 16

NEW: Here's an internal police email thread where 1) Local police performs a license plate lookup for ICE HSI 2) Local police in an informal "analyst group" offer each other, ICE's HSI, and the FBI help with a variety of surveillance tools 404media.co/emails-reveal-…

jason_koebler's tweet card. Police departments in Oregon created an "analyst group" where they casually offer each other assistance with surveillance tools.

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jun 11

New: A judge refuses to throw out the FTC's repair monopoly lawsuit against John Deere. Means two major antitrust suits over its repair practices are going to trial, which is a big deal: 404media.co/john-deere-mus…

jason_koebler's tweet card. Deere now must face two different major lawsuits over the repairability of its tractors.

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jun 11

AI spammers took control of domains owned by Nvidia, the CDC, Stanford and other major companies/government entities and overloaded them with blogs with headlines "Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games" and "Gay Firry Porn" 404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-…

jason_koebler's tweet card. Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by AI slop.

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jun 10

Scoop: GitHub code shows Trump administration is building a platform to "accelerate" AI across the government called ai.gov that is supposedly going to launch on the Fourth of July 404media.co/github-is-leak…

jason_koebler's tweet card. A new website and API called AI.gov is set to launch on the Fourth of July.

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Jason Koebler@jason_koebler · Jun 10

Airlines sell passenger data to the feds through a separate data broker they spun up and put in the contract that DHS is not allowed to tell anyone that it comes from the airlines: 404media.co/airlines-dont-…

jason_koebler's tweet card. A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.

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