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Jason Koebler Profile picture
@jason_koebler
Sep 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I filed FOIAs for body and dash cam / audio footage with every agency involved in the police killing of the Portland shooter. They all say they have nothing, or rejected my request. Four agencies involved, no cameras, at least so they say

vice.com/en_us/article/…
This is notable for the obvious reason that witnesses have described the killing as a police execution, and Trump has called it "retribution." So did we have a state-sponsored revenge killing w/o due process or what? video + audio would help ... would you believe that ...
Agencies involved in the killing have actively fought against body cameras citing the potential issue that body cam footage would be subject to FOIA and would "look bad" and be "thrown up on CNN" if obtainable by public. These quotes are not ancient, they are from June and August

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Mar 19
Facebook's algorithm is recommending the bizarre, AI-generated images (like "Shrimp Jesus") that are repeatedly going viral. Pages doing this are linking out to AI-generated and otherwise low-effort spam pages that are stacked with ads:

404media.co/facebooks-algo…
There is a new preprint paper out on this phenomenon by @noUpside from the Stanford Internet Observatory that adds more context to this article and the thread I'm about to do: cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/ai-spa…
@noUpside People see the bizarre AI images and go "wtf is the scam here?" My article tries to answer this. Not all pages are the same, but clickfarms have realized that AI content works on FB. Stanford studied 120 pages and found hundreds of millions of engagements over last few months
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Mar 5
I went deep into the world of TikTok spammers who claim to makes 5 figures a month posting stolen and AI-generated clips through its partner program. This community is absolutely nuts

404media.co/inside-the-wor…
There are 80,000 people sitting in a Discord talking about how to turn Reddit posts, fun facts, redpill clips, Would You Rather, Minecraft gameplay into $$$. Entire industry has popped up around it. People selling clips, tools, US-based TikTok accounts, GPT prompts, ideas


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People are ending up here because of repeatedly viral influencers who tell them they can make tons of money doing this. This video has gone viral repeatedly talking about how easy it is:
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Jan 18
Google News is indexing and promoting websites that immediately rip off others with AI clones of their articles. These websites are absolutely littered with Google ads. Our website, in which real humans do journalism, is not indexed by Google News

404media.co/google-news-is…
Google's stated position on this is that it doesn't mind AI-gen content: “Our focus when ranking content is on the quality of the content, rather than how it was produced. Automatically-generated content produced primarily for ranking purposes is considered spam..."
Let's look at what Google considers "News":

Here is a site called "WorldTimeTodays," which is indexed by Google News. Its website is almost entirely ads. Lets check out its writers and articles... Image
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Nov 17, 2023
Last week, Garth Brooks released a new album exclusively as part of a 7-CD set at Bass Pro Shops. It has still not been pirated, the lyrics are not on lyrics websites, there is exactly one professional review of the album

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The CD currently has six ratings on Bass Pro Shops' website. I found four tweets from people who said they have the album. No posts on popular Garth FB page. The hosts of "Garthology" podcast reveal halfway through their episode about it that they had not been able to listen Image
Garth Brooks is the best-selling country music artist of all time. He is playing a concert this month at his dive bar that 2 million people registered for a lottery for. He says he plans to release FIVE MORE Chris Gaines albums. This and other facts included in my investigation
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Sep 21, 2023
white supremacists are hijacking city council meetings all over the US

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Local news has been picking this up when it happens and has been doing a good job. But they rarely talk about what these hijackings mean for other citizens, who want to talk about real problems, or are at least doing so in good faith.

Note: This is a tough listen--
In 2016, everyone spent time handwringing and saying "let's not amplify these people's messages." So you get hundreds of news stories and thousands of tweets where people say things like "right wing extremists said bad things at a meeting" but no one says what the bad things are
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Sep 18, 2023
Flew to Vegas Saturday to gamble in MGM's hacked casinos / America's interactive ransomware museum.

Evidence of the hack is everywhere. Roughly a third of all slot machines seem to be broken, sports book kiosks are down ...

404media.co/inside-mgms-ha…
workers are still writing records of every transaction down with pen and paper.

Food court employees are physically walking to the single working register to take orders for eight different restaurants.

People are waiting 45 minutes to cash out from slot machines
The Aria's video billboard is software gore
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