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404 Media
U.S. left-leaning
404 Media is an independent, worker-owned technology journalism outlet co-founded in August 2023 by four former Vice Media/Motherboard journalists. It is rated left-leaning by media-bias trackers and focuses on tech, cybersecurity, AI, and surveillance. Its coverage of the Trump administration's second term has been primarily investigative and critical, with notable reporting on ICE-Palantir data contracts, federal tech-oversight rollbacks, and government communications security lapses.
Owned byWorker-owned cooperative; equally owned by its four co-founders — Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox. No external corporate investors or parent company.
LeaningU.S. left-leaning
On the administrationbroadly critical
5average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun