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.

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[–] 126 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 99 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    He called covering trans issues "charity". What a piece of shit. A-gay drop-the-t behavior.

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  • [–] 82 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's self sabotage too - once you start splintering off pieces of the movement for liberation it's only a matter of time until you're the only one left and they come for you next.

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  • [–] [S] 72 points 2 years ago

    This goes doubly because trans communities can be fairly well organized. I often see a very strong trans presence in queer spaces simply because we need to make up lack in numbers with determination and because we feel a stronger pressure to defend ourselves.

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  • [–] [S] 75 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is what pinkwashed capitalism gets us. I wonder if he's aware that the same advertisers will drop cis gay gossip outlets playing into respectability politics as well once transphobia has been used as a door opener to roll back the incredibly recent, still incomplete denormalization of homophobia, or if he's just the average corporate ghoul who can't think past the next three month's KPIs.

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  • [–] 73 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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    [–] 67 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Color me surprised that a liberal cis gay man is being the weakest link in the chain when it comes to giving a shit about our rights.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I’m not trying to be rude but what does cis mean in this context?

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (11 children)
    1. What the fuck is wrong with some people?

    2. Is there a good site for queer news that isn't ran by terfs?

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    https://www.erininthemorning.com/ seems good from what i can tell. she focuses particularly on trans legislation.

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 2 years ago

    Erin is usually the most thorough source for the US, i hope somebody can name a comparable British outlet as well given that it's on the forefront of fighting against trans rights in the imperial core and has some of the most openly transphobic journalists even outside of conservative sites.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    She's a reputable source, but the total focus on electoralism seems very LIB to me

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago

    pink news is based on terf island, they simply want the terf money

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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    [–] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's what you get for making things political, sweetie.

    maybe-later-honey 🍷🍷 maybe-later-kiddo

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    cis white gay men once again being the worst fuckin allies

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    they still teach Niemöller's poem I assume, but it sure seems like liberals don't understand it

    EVERYBODY IN, NOBODY OUT.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And pink news is what exactly?

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    covering transgender issues will cause them to lose advertisers.

    Capitalist booklicker shit

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    I hope this rag burns the fuck down then

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    I saw some of their articles a few years ago and I knew something was off

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    hexbear should create a new site called PinkoNews

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    It seems like the owners have been scum for a long time too. Apparently the faked having POC content contributors for years after they left (some calling the management culture racist when they did) by reposting old videos with black creators but having white people write articles under the same bylines in order to defraud a fund that donated to media orgs featuring black content creators...

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What’s next? My beloved site Hexbear turns out to be full of libs so as not to alienate porky?

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    fuck assimilationists, fuck bootlickers, fuck libs, and fucking down with cis comrade-raccoon

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