404 Media49%
Podcast: Flock is Tracking People, Not Just Cars 88%
By Joseph Cox67%
7/22/2026, 1:56:17 PM
Keywords: Podcast
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Negativity Bias, and Biased Writer Voice, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 33.3% saturation with 76 hits. Analysis detected 281 faulty-reasoning hits from 228 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 80.8% and a BS Rank of 88% (2,591 of 21,171 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.80% of the article peer group.
We start this week with Joseph’s story on how cops are using Flock to track actual people, not just cars, with searches like “male with tattoos.”
After the break, Emanuel tells us all about the company that is explicitly selling mountains of books to AI companies and promising to keep the sales a secret.
In the subscribers-only section, Jason tells us how he learned about the Suno hack and what it showed us.
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* You're Invited: 404 Media's Third Anniversary Live Podcast and Party!
* How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
* AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
* Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
Analysis
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