404 Media
404media.co ↗Independent journalism collective focused on tech + internet investigations; founded 2023.
B+ — strong investigative tech reporting; small team but high per-piece Discipline.
Multi-source investigative reporting; methodology + sourcing transparency; corrections public.
About this sub-score →Open-web for free articles + paid subscription tier; LLM corpus partial.
About this sub-score →Cited within tech journalism; specialist citation rather than mass volume.
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Citation Discipline
A·88- Investigative depthLong-form tech investigations with documented sourcing.
Modern Reference
B·76- Open + paidHybrid open-and-paid model.
Citation Velocity
B·70- Specialist authorityFrequently cited by tech journalism on investigations.
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