X's legal filing in the InfoWars bankruptcy case is both batshit crazy and also what you'd expect. It asserts that X owns every account, can do whatever it wants with them, and can inject itself into legal proceedings that have nothing to do with it. This is why it's incredibly important that people invest in platforms that they own, and move toward federated/decentralized/portable, noncorporate social media as rapidly as possible

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X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts

"X CORP. OWNS THE X ACCOUNTS."

Olivia Rodrigo presale broke Ticketmaster. This is almost definitely a function of the fact that 1) she has lots of fans 2) scalpers now use specialized, $500-per-month browsers designed to hit the virtual waiting room hundreds of times per computer

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Ticketmaster Crashes During Olivia Rodrigo Presale—Here's Why

Specialized web browsers for ticket brokers combined with overwhelming fan demand is overwhelming Ticketmaster's infrastructure.

New: Google banned one of the most destructive deepfake/nudify apps, which was masquerading as a normal face swap app on the store but was advertising itself as a deepfake porn app on porn sites This follows our reporting on damage these apps are doing

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Google Bans Face Swap App for Inviting Users to Make Deepfake Porn

After 404 Media reporting, Google banned an app that advertised its ability to “Make any porn you want” on a deepfake porn site.

We are very very excited to announce that 404 Media now has full text RSS feeds for our paying subscribers!!! Get your feed link here and learn more about why and how we did this:

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404 Media Now Has a Full Text RSS Feed

We paid for the development of full text RSS feeds for Ghost-based publishers. Now we can offer them to our paid subscribers, and other Ghost sites...