Jasper Jackson
Managing editor at Transformer. Ex-tech editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, also previously Guardian and New Statesman. Sometime media columnist. Signal: jasperjackson.01
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonThis is, fundamentally, an incredibly funny thing for someone who considers themselves cultured to think, let alone say on a public platform
- Reposted by Jasper Jacksona lot of americans are convinced we need to re-invent the entire financial wheel just because they're still paying for things with cheques. This is a you problem/skill issue, guys
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- Reposted by Jasper JacksonJewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here. What he said was fine. Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough. I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonThe BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonEven when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonI'm seeing people mistakenly claim the gun photo was posted before today, but its just how Google sometimes dates images based on the original date of the thread its posted in, not when it was posted. The photo was posted an hour ago in this 5 day old thread www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...
- Reposted by Jasper Jacksoni suppose it makes sense but it is completely demoralizing that we live in a moment where there is more video/photographic evidence (often from multiple angles) than ever before and also a durable system in place for propagandists to gaslight or convince others into not believing their eyes
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonPer this report ICE has detained several witnesses
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonThis is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonWe set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonMischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonIt's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonVery strange Economist leader. Not sure ‘bad things also happened in the 18th and 19th centuries’ is an especially reassuring argument. America has coped with worse things than Donald Trump economist.com/leaders/2026...
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonCritical piece about a new Palantir app ICE is using to determine the “density” of potential people to deport in a given neighborhood. Gives some indications on how ICE is deciding where to act www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonCharlie Kirk from The Charlie Kirk Show, Oct. 26, 2023:
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonAs of now, that's still possible in the UK.
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonWikipedia was created 25 years ago, today – since then it’s become the largest collection of relatively reliable knowledge in history But how vulnerable is it to those willing to pay top dollar to polish their reputations? And how do British PR firms help them do it?
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonWe're now seeing headlines that claim X is blocking Grok from complying with requests to undress and sexualize women. Wrong again gang — it happily stripped me, gave me bigger breasts, and put me in pornographic poses, entirely for free. All I had to do was ask. www.theverge.com/news/861894/...
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonHello network. I am looking for a new job. I’m an experienced journalist, copywriter and media consultant, available immediately. My portfolio spans leading publications, as well as FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies. Please reach out on chsrohan@gmail.com Website here: rohanbanerjee.co.uk
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonI don’t think we need to hand it to Hitler
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonFinding the reactions to this bleakly funny. Lads, the point isn’t that you are sending enough people to “win”, because we in fact, can’t win. It is just to have a tripwire! If you are going “why not 13, like Germany?” you have not understood how bad things are.
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonMuch higher than the estimate death toll in the 2022 protests, and probably the bloodiest crackdown in the Islamic Republic's history, if you exclude the murder of political prisoners in jails in the 1980s.
- "About 2,000 people including security personnel have been killed in protests in Iran, an Iranian official said on Tuesday, the first time authorities have acknowledged the high death toll from an intense crackdown on two weeks of nationwide unrest" www.reuters.com/world/china/...
- I trust Sunder but actually had to still check this because it is too insane/terrifying.
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonThe Verge has made this point too bsky.app/profile/zomb...
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- Reposted by Jasper JacksonForensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonWhen the obits for Bluesky are written – and that day probably got closer lately – a trans writer getting hounded off the site amid a row over modding video games to give characters bigger boobs (but wokely, apparently?) is definitely gonna be in there.
- So much interesting in this (and good work on @caseynewton.bsky.social documenting it). One thing to note though, Google's watermarking identified the image of the badge as created by its AI tool. Other image generators haven't bothered implementing anything similar, why? (Looking at you, Sora.)
- Great work from @caseynewton.bsky.social and an illuminating case study in how journalists authenticate allegations/sources in an age of generative AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...
- Reposted by Jasper Jacksonthat's a lot of power users gone because of dogpiling. christ
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonIf the government genuinely believes this stat then boy am I confused about what they think the next election is going to look like for them
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- Reposted by Jasper Jacksonoh noes, urgent contact to establish steps they have taken, they must be quaking in their boots, this will put a stop to it at once
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonAnd over to you @ofcom.bsky.social We have the regulatory tools. You would not tolerate this with any other medium, why not act now? Shut it down. Imagine if any other company did this, their owner would be in court/jail
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonFacebook slow to act on posts celebrating murder of Jews, anti-hate group says
- Reposted by Jasper Jacksongotta love online business models like this from CityMapper - we will serve you fake news ads, or you can pay to remove them
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonJust watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonNo one in government seems to want to invest in a comprehensive programme to understand the prevalence and impact of notionally bad content online. Until they do that, so much policy is vibes.
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonA small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonAnd guess what? The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonArs Technica is hiring a Tech Reporter We're seeking an expert in one or more of these fields: software development, DIY tech, cybersecurity, free and open-source software (FOSS). Come join the team! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonThis week on the newsletter, it's the long-awaited HS2 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
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- Reposted by Jasper Jacksonapart from the sheer inconceivable horror of the El Fasher massacre and its attendant horrors itself, the thing I'm feeling depressed about is that it probably won't matter. these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonI've been investigating digital deception for ~15yrs and 2025 was the worst year. VC-backed bot farms, endless AI slop, industrial level scams, abusive AI nudifiers, Meta paying $ for hoaxes... Deception was legitimized, monetized & shoved down the public’s throat: indicator.media/p/2025-the-y...
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonIt would be sad, if almost amusingly ironic, if the ways we express our fears about AI were the very thing that ended up making them come true.
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonProbably the most shocking example of early 1980s racist bullying by Nigel Farage so far. As a 17-year-old, Farage routinely used to wait by the Dulwich College gates for 9-year-old Yinka Bankole to arrive. Farage would then point into the distance and tell Bankole ”that’s the way back to Africa”.
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonHave dug into what’s going on with whistleblowers and AI companies for @transformernews.ai. Featuring: some crackdowns, some transparency, some new laws, and one deeply bizarre cease-and-desist notice. www.transformernews.ai/p/can-ai-emb...
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonAnthropic is set to publish its whistleblowing policy for employees imminently — likely as soon as this week — making it the second major AI company to publicly reveal how it will handle internal whistleblowing. www.transformernews.ai/can-ai-embra...
- Reposted by Jasper JacksonThis is somewhat nerdy/technical but reveals utterly woeful practices at the OBR – where they relied on free Wordpress plugins to protect some of the most sensitive economic data the UK publishes. Absolutely dismal stuff, and not just one junior staffer screwing up.
