Craig Jenkins

@craigsj.bsky.social

Culture writer at Vulture / New York Magazine, dungeon crawler, Pulitzer nominee, things of that nature https://www.vulture.com/author/craig-jenkins/

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

wired.com

Aside from the knock to the ever-dwindling music journalism ecosystem, I just think about what this all means for smaller and mid-tier bands. If you're not already huge, who is going to cover your album? Who is going to post about your tour? Who is going to…

Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 5h ago

“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”

The framing of these Democratic primaries by many news orgs is "how did the party let these radicals take over?" instead of "what is going on in the country and the world that leads so many people to vote this way?"

thinking about people who used to say it only helps the other party to criticize a democrat. mfs gave that up soon as they stopped getting their way. now it's "[possibly generationally savvy public servant] is unraveling the fiber of democracy" every fucken week. i thought now wasn't the time lol

there's just no amount of overthinking and deep preparation that can save you from your idea getting twisted into almost the opposite of what you mean online. i often find that freeing but i do not the fuck today.

A lot of columnists have lost their minds in recent years because social media has allowed people to talk back to them, whereas before they could say any old vile shit with next to no pushback