Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 39mThe most interesting part of this to me is the extent to which the right wing media coverage appears manufactured. The Axios story, the Hannity/Benny Johnson posts, the Charlie Kirk show appearance. Begs the question of who got advanced warning on this “bombshell” and how often this stuff happens. 000
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 3hThere's something super off-putting about both Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots being dressed up as cuddly avatars. Like the executives know the only way to convince people to give their companies all your personal data is to look cute while doing it. 011
Reposted by Jack BenjaminEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin... 17141011367
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The solidarity was nice while it lasted 😪 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...nytimes.comTV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable. 030
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Control Resonant is cracked. Game is insanely fun and inventive. 010
Reposted by Jack BenjaminAlan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Modi, Orban, Erdogan, Trump, Farage. They all learn from each other on how to deal with journalists, and how create their own propaganda channels. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75066/...app.prospectmagazine.co.ukTrump is trying to control the news, and Farage is desperate to follow himBanning the media from the White House appears to have backfired, but the bigger fight for press freedom—when so much of our information is controlled by a handful of billionaires—is very much on 28542
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The same companies caught running ads for literal CSAM won’t run ads for the Musk doc. Let that sink in. 011
Reposted by Jack BenjaminBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 52851351
Reposted by Jack BenjaminJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this story is truly 2026 in a nutshell. AI is super intelligent. but it's expensive. so it'll pass off your task to a grunt in the phillipines. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...404media.coMeta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch." 914632
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Is it just me or has NYT's Style section become the go-to way for broligarchs and MAGAs to get some positive PR? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/s...nytimes.comMark Zuckerberg Is Trying Something OnMeta’s C.E.O. talks for the first time about his style evolution. 120
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Bruh www.semafor.com/article/09/2...semafor.comExclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investmentA cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base. 010
Reposted by Jack BenjaminStatus @status.news · 23/09/2026The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, we have learned. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...status.newsThe Source Behind The BanThe anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned. 23505175
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ofcom is now investigating the company behind Pornhub's age checks. "We are concerned that Aylo’s process may not be highly effective at preventing children from seeing pornography." www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...ofcom.org.ukOfcom launches investigation into Pornhub’s age checksOfcom has opened an investigation into Aylo – the service provider of Pornhub – under the UK’s Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to prevent children from encounte... 000
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Connecticut AG William Tong: “Connecticut wanted and demanded full divestiture of CNN and CBS News. [...] “I am deeply disappointed that we could not do more.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/m...nytimes.comAfter Crucial Paramount Agreement Come Relief, Anger and ConcernFew seem totally satisfied by the settlement that will let Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery move forward. 000
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale.” 053
Reposted by Jack BenjaminReece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Meta's new AI agent wanted my passport info. Not to help me. To train on me. Actually, it wanted everything: bank accounts, email inboxes, ID info. No surprise coming from Meta. But always worth reminding readers that AI automations come with major privacy risks. www.wired.com/story/metas-...wired.comMeta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping MeThe Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information. 12283141
Reposted by Jack BenjaminBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This description of the CNN/CBS “editorial independence board” is not reassuring, because there is no sign that it has any actual power. Also, the requirement that the journalists on the board be from different political parties is exceptionally weird. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social 29577127
Reposted by Jack BenjaminAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit" 2411218555332
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The Ellisons will own (in full or in part): - TikTok US - CBS/CBS News/Sports - CNN - Paramount (+) - Nickelodeon - Comedy Central - Miramax - MTV - Showtime - BET - Channel 5 (UK) - Pluto TV - Warner Bros Pictures - New Line Cinema - Castle Rock - DC Entertainment/Studios/Comics - HBO (Max) 1/2 145
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Per NYT, Paramount is settling with states to push its acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery through. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...nytimes.comParamount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. AcquisitionThe deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN. 210
Reposted by Jack BenjaminScott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 805149283702
Reposted by Jack BenjaminCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Joint statement from MS NOW, Politico and CNN: @ms.now @politico.com @cnn.com 15466111
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are suing over blocked access to the White House. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/21/p... Hearings and legal arguments could commence as soon as this week, per CNN. Couldn't be a more straightforward 1st Amendment violation.edition.cnn.comCNN, MS NOW and Politico to sue Trump administration over White House access | CNN PoliticsThe three national news outlets President Donald Trump banned from the White House — CNN, MS NOW, and Politico — are filing a critical First Amendment lawsuit to restore their access. 000
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Snip snap snip snap www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u... (Gift link) 021
Reposted by Jack BenjaminMS NOW Public Relations @msnowcomms.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@ms.now statement on its journalists being denied access to the White House grounds: 1741702518
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026AI agents are now being used by states to spam social media platforms with propaganda, per NYT. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/t...nytimes.comIran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns (Gift Article)The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation. 020
Reposted by Jack BenjaminJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The court filing dug up by @kint.bsky.social is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 13839335
Reposted by Jack BenjaminJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253422313
Reposted by Jack BenjaminSam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje... 281654513
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“Comfort class authoritarianism” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/w...nytimes.comThe New Moscow: A Digital Utopia Doubling as a Surveillance TrapCutting-edge technologies have reshaped the Russian capital, making it safer, more convenient — and more closely watched. 000
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Enjoying these new ads for Control Resonant on my road in London 000
Reposted by Jack BenjaminDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"We report nearly a million users a month for looking at kiddie porn!" may not be the ironclad defense of your platform that you think it is 11475103
Reposted by Jack Benjaminkate conger @kateconger.com · 11/09/2026Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...nytimes.comElon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It PersistsReviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk. 122068929
Reposted by Jack BenjaminAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad. 352512636
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Call me crazy, but I don't think a journalist should be part of a venture capital fund, let alone one that invests in companies in the very same sector they cover. sources.news/p/joining-so...sources.newsJoining Sound VenturesI’m becoming an investor, and Sources will continue. 011
Reposted by Jack BenjaminZahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 10/09/2026EXCLUSIVE: The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed multiple online resources for companies on how to measure the carbon footprint of their supply chains, called Scope 3 emissions. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comEPA Removes Online Scope 3 Emissions Guidance for CompaniesAs the Trump administration rolls back environmental rules, it’s also taking down resources that help corporations understand their environmental risk. 25039
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Very real-sized right hand you got there, Apple hand model. 010
Reposted by Jack BenjaminHeather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“The idea that you could be here for the next 10, 15 years and you’d still have no legal right to remain in the country … how the hell do you plan?..It cuts across any effort to integrate at all.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.com‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretaryPaul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment 11577179
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A folding iPhone is cool and all but really all I want is a budget Mini option that has a headphone jack, doesn't listen to my conversations, and doesn't have any AI features. 010
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The Guardian has published its 2025/26 accounts. Some takeaways: - Total revenue up 2% to £282m. - Non-UK revenue grew 8% to £115m to comprise 41% of total revenue. - The Guardian US now has over 500,000 recurring supporters. - Ad revenue was down 1.5% to £63m. www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...theguardian.comGuardian Media Group publishes 2025/26 statutory accountsGuardian Media Group publishes 2025/26 statutory accounts – Digital reader revenue up 17% with 15% growth in US operations 000
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Guillermo del Toro is currently giving an all-time great AMA on r/movies: old.reddit.com/r/movies/com...old.reddit.comHello reddit. I'm Guillermo del Toro. AMA!Hello reddit, I'm Guillermo del Toro. I've written & directed **Cronos**, **The Devil's Backbone**, **Blade II**, **Hellboy**, **Pan's... 000
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The winners here are almost entirely American media companies. Streamers like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, etc, yes, but also Big Tech: Meta, YouTube, TikTok et al. The platforms have siphoned away ever larger ad budgets despite lacking independent and robust media measurement. 020
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Channel 4 has formally announced it will be reducing its staff headcount by 28%, equivalent to ~340 roles, by the end of this year. 100
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Want to show up more on Google's AI search results? Why not launch a YouTube show and give Google a cut of your ad revenue. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comJohn Lewis to launch YouTube chatshow to improve AI search resultsDepartment store chain’s Gift List ‘vodcast’ will be hosted by TV presenter Angela Scanlon 010
Reposted by Jack BenjaminLucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com · 09/09/2026EXC: Anthropic declined to submit its latest model to Britain’s AI Security Institute for testing before release, the first time a major model withheld from AISI Move has prompted fears in UK govt that tech firms are falling into line with Trump admin’s AI protectionism www.ft.com/content/560e...ft.comAnthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agencyDecision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups 14243135
Reposted by Jack BenjaminRob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"You should support everything Israel does because you're Jewish" and "You should be held responsible for everything Israel does because you're Jewish" are both ignorant and reprehensible positions. 315922
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026New: Brits aged 16-34 now spend nearly half of their commercial media time in isolation from others. Men now spend more time, and a greater share of that time, consuming media alone than women. Details: uk.themedialeader.com/personalisat...uk.themedialeader.com 000
Reposted by Jack BenjaminAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...theverge.comLG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standbyGamers Nexus comes for LG again. 14540461757
Reposted by Jack Benjaminandy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...) 8379822142
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026PSBs continue to shrink. Brutal indeed. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...theguardian.comChannel 4 to axe about 300 jobs in biggest layoffs in its historyExclusive: Staff expect ‘brutal’ cutbacks as broadcaster seeks to reduce costs amid advertising slowdown 000