Joseph Cox

Joseph is an award-winning investigative journalist focused on generating impact. His work has triggered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fines, shut down tech companies, and much more.

470 posts

Impact

Congress Pushes DHS for Details on ICE’s New Facial Recognition App

404 Media first revealed ICE’s new app, called Mobile Fortify, in June. Now members of a congressional committee are pressing DHS for more information, including ICE's legal basis for using the app inside the U.S.

Joseph Cox

· Sep 4, 2025

Podcast

Podcast: Trump Take LEGO

How Trump's tariffs are impacting all sorts of hobbies; how OnlyFans piracy is ruining the internet for everyone; and ChatGPT's reckoning.

Joseph Cox

· Sep 3, 2025

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Dogfooding and Datasets

This week, we discuss our top games, “dense street imagery," and first-person experiences with apps.

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Emanuel Maiberg

· Aug 29, 2025

Podcast

Podcast: 404 Media Live—NYC!

Here's the podcast recorded at our recent second anniversary party in New York!

Joseph Cox

· Aug 28, 2025

News

Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month

That dashcam in your car could soon integrate with Flock, the surveillance company providing license plate data to DHS and local police.

Joseph Cox

· Aug 27, 2025

Podcast

Podcast: The Underground Trade of Car Hacking Tech

The Flipper Zero is being modified to break into cars; the wave of 80s nostalgia AI slop; and how the Citizen app is using AI to write crime alerts.

Joseph Cox

· Aug 27, 2025

News

Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes

Three sources described how AI is writing alerts for Citizen and broadcasting them without prior human review. In one case AI mistranslated “motor vehicle accident” to “murder vehicle accident.”

Joseph Cox

· Aug 25, 2025