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Also, consider paying 404media the $100 for a year. It's just 4 people and I don't think they have many people actually paying. They're doing really good work. I paid.

They also have a podcast - basically the top stories they publish in a conversational format: https://www.404media.co/the-404-media-podcast/

It's interesting that they offer advertising, but all of their content is behind paywalls.

It's not a paywall, just a sign-in wall.

They were having trouble with getting scraped. The email sign-in is enough of a barrier to stop most scrapers. https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-addre...

They didn't in the beginning. I think they realized that it wasn't sustainable with not enough people paying (pure speculation).

$100/year is too much for an article on their complaints about Facebook.

Believe it or not, $100 provides a wealth of journalism for the year, not just the single article!

What about:

* Government to Name ‘Key Witness’ Who Provided FBI With Backdoored Encrypted Chat App Anom

* Secret Service Admits It Didn’t Check if People Really Consented to Being Tracked

* Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users

* DHS Says China, Russia, Iran, and Israel Are Spying on People in US with SS7

* Congress Pushes Apple to Remove Deepfake Apps After 404 Media Investigation

* Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data

the reason I paid is they kept coming up over and over again and I want to support their model: https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/404-media-and-the-hopes...

also traditional media are using them as a source, such as forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2024/11/12/no-your-...

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