PinkNews refuses to cover trans issues on the basis it jeopardises ad revenue and is "contentious".
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While Transgender lives in the UK and US are at risk, PinkNews abandons its transgender readers.

In a bombshell leak from @PinkNewsStaff on X, Pink News’ CEO Benjamin Cohen has been recorded signalling his intent to abandon the trans community to instead focus on being an “entertainment powerhouse”.

In the leaked recording Benjamin is captured stating “We have to be careful.” “It’s the role of others to change narratives”, going on to further say that covering transgender issues will cause them to lose advertisers.

This revelation comes two weeks after pinknews removed their trans category from the website.

@PinkNewsStaff joined X in May 2024 and has been releasing several other allegations about the outlet, claiming there is a toxic culture of bullying, harassment and discrimination at PinkNews.

Leaked audio in the linked article.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    67·
    3 months ago

    Besides being spineless and pathetic, if I’ve learned anything about the Internet it’s that the machine literally runs on outrage. If you are a lightning rod for outrage, you’re a lightning rod for money. Think about the payout Imane Khelif is about to get from terf woman and divorced science dad. People cannot get enough being mad. You have the perfect machine for it in the Internet. People need to take breaks from making millions on the Internet because they get so fucking mad so fucking often they need to go touch grass. People spend billions and billions trying to get people to look at them while they’re getting mad. And you’re telling me you’re getting hits on “contentious content” and you’re upset about it? It jeopardizes ad revenue? GET NEW AD REVENUE! IT’S THERE! BLUE CHEW TOOK OUT ADS ON THE CUM TOWN PODCAST AND YOU’RE TELLING ME YOU CANT GET A RAID SHADOW LEGENDS TO SPONSOR PINK NEWS? GET AN INTERN TO SEND AI GENERATED LETTERS TO POTENTIAL SPONSORS. YOU HAVE A HOT COMMODITY AND YOU’RE THROWING IT IN THE GARBAGE.

    All you’d need to do is open a comments section under your articles and give an ally mod powers (give them $200/mo and never look at it again to avoid every headache) and you’d get infinity traffic to your website - enjoy your yacht.