Podcast: We Reveal One of the FBI’s Most Closely Guarded Secrets

This week’s 404 Media Podcast is up! Every episode Joseph, Sam, Emanuel, and Jason go deeper on a couple of stories we published in the last week.

In this episode, Jason takes us through what sounds like a Harry Styles story, but it's actually an artificial intelligence one. We also play a few rounds of “Is That Audio Snippet an AI Generated Version of Harry Styles or Is It a Real Section of a Leaked Harry Styles Song?”

After the break, Joseph breaks down a massive secret he revealed: the so-called “third country” that intercepted tens of millions of encrypted messages on behalf of the FBI.

Paid subscribers get access to our weekly podcast before it hits the public feed, and gain access to bonus subscriber-only content. That includes a long Q&A episode we just published where we candidly answer a bunch of questions from 404 Media readers. Those include why did we choose Ghost over Substack? What do you think of DIY laptops? And, most importantly, which Mario Kart track would we race IRL?

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• The Specter of AI-Generated 'Leaked Songs' Is Tearing the Harry Styles Fandom Apart
• Revealed: The Country that Secretly Wiretapped the World for the FBI