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The 404 Media Podcast

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 o...

Website ↗ Last published 2 November 2026 234 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on The 404 Media Podcast

“The thing that bothers me about Silicon Valley is that being wrong has no real cost to it. Because if you're wrong, you can just keep kicking the can down the road to the next thing. Let's look at crypto… The metaverse is like my favorite example because it was so obviously bullshit in a lot of ways around the thing that I was just talking about of like, get on board because it's inevitable.” — Mike Isaac, The 404 Media Podcast
Mike Isaac · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“They told us a lot of stories inside the company about how people who leaked were narcissists. … And the reality is like people who talk to journalists are people who care enough about the company that they talk to journalists.” — Frances Haugen, The 404 Media Podcast
Frances Haugen · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“When it comes to reshares, you only like reshares on average from like your eight closest friends. … And unfortunately, content that can still get a reaction, even when it's a reshare, is much, much more likely to provoke extreme feelings because it has to get over that bias you have against reshared content. So they accidentally basically did this feature that poured gasoline on the most extreme content.” — Frances Haugen, The 404 Media Podcast
Frances Haugen · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If they're spending tens of billions of dollars on chips and compute and data centers, which a lot of people don't seem to like these days, shouldn't they actually have to pay for the content? Why is that the one piece of this trillion dollar market that they're building that doesn't have to get paid for?” — Jason Kint, The 404 Media Podcast
Jason Kint · 5 Oct 2026 Listen →
“There's some people that say that would be great. Having to think through everything you do, having to be more careful, that would make us a better society, everyone will be better behaved. But I just don't think that's how the world works. In the beginning there were these radical transparency advocates who would say we'll reach a time when you won't be embarrassed anymore, and we'll be a more forgiving society. But I just don't think we've gone that way. We just love to attack people when they do something wrong. We wouldn't have a better-behaved society. We would just have a constantly punished society.” — Kashmir Hill, The 404 Media Podcast
Kashmir Hill · 28 Sep 2026 Listen →
“Our AI content strategy has started a doom loop that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time. It is highly unusual that an end product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its content supply chain.” — Jason Koebler, The 404 Media Podcast
Jason Koebler · 23 Sep 2026 Listen →
“I am really insisting on an optimistic perspective, because I think this is so bad that the better it gets, the worse it is.” — Sherry Turkle, The 404 Media Podcast
Sherry Turkle · 21 Sep 2026 Listen →
“I'm not for the surveillance state. I don't think we need to be like London where there are cameras on every corner doing facial recognition and tracking people in their daily movements.” — Patrick McGeehan, The 404 Media Podcast
Patrick McGeehan · 7 Sep 2026 Listen →
“…This is a scaled abuse, and scaled abuse is detectable. And if it's detectable, it's preventable.” — Paul Raffile, The 404 Media Podcast
Paul Raffile · 31 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The 404 Media Podcast is hosted by Jason Koebler , Joseph Cox , Sam Cole , Emanuel Maiberg , Matthew Gault , Jason Kebler , Alyssa Midcalf and Jules Roscoe .

Recent Episodes

  1. 2 Nov 2026

    Can Data Center Development Be Stopped?

    With Kyle Keeler and Nate Otjen

  2. 28 Oct 2026

    Leaked Audio: Flock CEO Says the Backlash Isn’t Real

  3. 26 Oct 2026

    Is the AI Boom a Bubble?

    With Mike Isaac

  4. 21 Oct 2026

    ‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the Next Wave of AI Slop

  5. 19 Oct 2026

    Data Centers Are Worse Than You Thought

    With Paris Marx

  6. 14 Oct 2026

    Cops Can Use AI to Pinpoint Your Home with Just One Photo

  7. 9 Oct 2026

    The Social Reckoning’s Real-Life Whistleblower

    With Frances Haugen

  8. 7 Oct 2026

    Leak Show Cops Can Break into Locked iPhones

  9. 6 Oct 2026

    404 Media Live! The Three Year Anniversary Show

  10. 5 Oct 2026

    AI Companies Scraped the Web and Are Destroying the Human Internet

    With Jason Kint

  11. 30 Sep 2026

    The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data

    With Garrett Langley

  12. 28 Sep 2026

    The End of Privacy Is Here (with Kashmir Hill)

    With Kashmir Hill

Guests

Becky Ferreira (3 episodes), Alexzandra Kekesi (2 episodes), Nathan Proctor (2 episodes), Meredith Whittaker (2 episodes), Brian Merchant (2 episodes), Byron Tau , Craig Silverman , Bridget Todd , Kyle Keeler , Hal Triedman , Alex Hanna , Kolina Koltai , and 57 more.