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dame
@dame.is

404 Media has been on the decline for a hot minute, but quote dunking on a random trans woman who isn’t a public figure and fueling a wave of harassment against her is perhaps a new low for them!

Matt Keeter@mattkeeter.com

“Should people preemptively block 404 Media for their own safety” is definitely the kind of question that one wants associated with their media brand, great work.

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dame
@dame.is

It’s, unfortunately, critical to their business model. They haven’t seemed to find a way to stay profitable without the culture war engagement grifting, which unfortunately is a phenomenon affecting most media outlets these days. Not really sure where we go from here. :/

Yokem
@yokem.signalfd.com

They've always been dishonest. They were so proud of only having passwordless logins via email links as "see how we're protecting your security!" when I'm 99% certain they just wanted to put up a barrier to account/login sharing.

dame
@dame.is

The context is below if you missed it. This is the latest incident in which a trans person who works in the AI space & isn’t a public figure gets dog piled by large accounts… in addition to all the really hateful comments, there’s rampant misgendering & disregard for their transness from “allies”.

dame@dame.is

This is pathetic, delete your post and have some internal conversation about your conduct here, this is not okay.

dame
@dame.is

Side note: 404 Media has some of the most overtly biased and prejudiced reporting in the business. So many articles come out of that rag that display a total disregard for journalistic integrity, it’s turning into a culture war fueled engagement grifting tabloid.

disregarded stars
@theetceteras.bsky.social

I foolishly clicked the link trying to figure out how it was even relevant and it's basically an opinion piece riffing off of Twitter posts - one of the lowest forms of clickbait "journalism" around. So disappointing because we need good, skeptical tech reporting.