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