# The 404 Media Podcast

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Author: 404 Media
Episodes: 198

## Resource

Welcome to the podcast from 404 Media where Joseph, Sam, Emanuel, and Jason catch you up on the stories we published this week. 404 Media is a journalist-owned digital media company exploring the way technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world. We bring you unparalleled access to hidden worlds both online and IRL through investigative reporting, smart blogging, and breaking news. At 404 Media you’ll read, and hear, stories you can’t find anywhere else written by journalists who are leading experts on their beats. Subscribe to 404 Media at 404media.co to gain access to an ad-free version of this podcast, as well as a bonus podcast episodes. Subscribers are the bedrock of building a sustainable business for our journalism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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## Episodes
- [Is the Best Game of the Year a Failure?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/is-the-best-game-of-the-year-a-failure) — 2026-07-06T10:00:00+00:00
- [The Tokenpocalypse Is Here](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here) — 2026-07-01T10:00:00+00:00
- [How Brands Use Reddit to Poison AI Search](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/how-brands-use-reddit-to-poison-ai-search) — 2026-06-29T10:00:00+00:00
- [If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/if-ai-is-sentient-then-so-is-age-of-empires-ii) — 2026-06-24T10:00:00+00:00
- [Stopping Tech Company Censorship (with Jake Hanrahan)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/stopping-tech-company-censorship-with-jake-hanrahan) — 2026-06-22T10:00:00+00:00
- [The Government Wants to End Anonymity on Phones](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/the-government-wants-to-end-anonymity-on-phones) — 2026-06-17T10:00:00+00:00
- [Meet Me at the Opsec Rave (with Imani Thompson)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/meet-me-at-the-opsec-rave-with-imani-thompson) — 2026-06-15T10:00:00+00:00
- [Google Employees Meme About How Bad Their AI Is](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/google-employees-meme-about-how-bad-their-ai-is) — 2026-06-10T10:00:00+00:00
- [It’s So Not Over for Hollywood (with Devindra Hardawar)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/it-s-so-not-over-for-hollywood-with-devindra-hardawar) — 2026-06-08T10:00:00+00:00
- [Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/hackers-asked-meta-ai-to-let-them-in-it-worked) — 2026-06-03T10:00:00+00:00
- [A Repairable, No-Tech Tractor](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/a-repairable-no-tech-tractor) — 2026-06-01T10:00:00+00:00
- [How Deepfakes Destroyed a High School](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/how-deepfakes-destroyed-a-high-school) — 2026-05-27T10:00:00+00:00
- [Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/millions-of-people-are-installing-malware-on-their-partners-phones) — 2026-05-25T10:00:00+00:00
- [Boo-sters](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/boo-sters) — 2026-05-20T15:58:00+00:00
- [The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/the-physical-politics-of-the-internet-with-britt-paris) — 2026-05-18T10:00:00+00:00
- [The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/the-chinese-deepfake-software-powering-scams) — 2026-05-13T10:00:00+00:00
- [How the World Became a Casino (With Natasha Schüll)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/how-the-world-became-a-casino-with-natasha-sch-ll) — 2026-05-11T10:00:00+00:00
- [Flock Used Cameras at a Children’s Gymnastics Center for a Sales Pitch](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/flock-used-cameras-at-a-children-s-gymnastics-center-for-a-sales-pitch) — 2026-05-06T10:00:00+00:00
- [The New Luddites: Why People Are Destroying Surveillance and AI Infrastructure](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/the-new-luddites-why-people-are-destroying-surveillance-and-ai-infrastructure) — 2026-05-04T15:52:00+00:00
- [How This Trippy Image Started A Massive Conspiracy Theory](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/how-this-trippy-image-started-a-massive-conspiracy-theory) — 2026-04-29T10:00:00+00:00
- [Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals' Hands (with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/government-hacking-tools-are-now-in-criminals-hands-with-lorenzo-franceschi-bicchierai) — 2026-04-27T10:00:00+00:00
- [How Algorithms Make Us Feel Bad and Weird](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/how-algorithms-make-us-feel-bad-and-weird) — 2026-04-22T07:00:00+00:00
- [Why Journalists Are Leaving Big Media (with Maddy Myers)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/why-journalists-are-leaving-big-media-with-maddy-myers) — 2026-04-20T10:00:00+00:00
- [How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/how-the-fbi-extracted-deleted-signal-messages) — 2026-04-16T16:19:00+00:00
- [How the Internet Became Hell (with Whitney Phillips)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/how-the-internet-became-hell-with-whitney-phillips) — 2026-04-13T10:00:00+00:00
- [Wildlife Cops Are Searching AI Cameras for ICE](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/wildlife-cops-are-searching-ai-cameras-for-ice) — 2026-04-08T10:00:00+00:00
- [The Lawyer Fighting Government Surveillance for 30 Years (With EFF's Cindy Cohn)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/the-lawyer-fighting-government-surveillance-for-30-years-with-eff-s-cindy-cohn) — 2026-04-06T10:00:00+00:00
- [Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/inside-the-ai-slop-propaganda-wars) — 2026-04-01T15:19:00+00:00
- [The Journalist Who Tracked Epstein Island Visitors’ Phones](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/the-journalist-who-tracked-epstein-island-visitors-phones) — 2026-03-30T13:00:00+00:00
- [The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/the-company-secretly-turning-your-zoom-meetings-into-podcasts) — 2026-03-25T10:00:00+00:00
- [The Marketing Tricks of "Artificial Intelligence"](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/the-marketing-tricks-of-artificial-intelligence) — 2026-03-23T10:00:00+00:00
- [The Disappearing DOGE Depositions](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/the-disappearing-doge-depositions) — 2026-03-18T10:00:00+00:00
- [Google Street View's Unmappable City](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/google-street-view-s-unmappable-city) — 2026-03-16T10:00:00+00:00
- [How to Talk to Your Friend Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/how-to-talk-to-your-friend-experiencing-ai-psychosis) — 2026-03-11T13:00:00+00:00
- [Understanding Roblox’s Grooming Problem](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/understanding-roblox-s-grooming-problem) — 2026-03-09T10:00:00+00:00
- [The Depravity Economy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/the-depravity-economy) — 2026-03-04T11:00:00+00:00
- [How to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/how-to-detect-phone-spying-tech-with-cooper-quintin) — 2026-03-02T11:00:00+00:00
- [Ring Is Just Getting Started](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-404-media-podcast-6582713/ring-is-just-getting-started) — 2026-02-25T11:00:00+00:00

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