Very much enjoyed digging into Anthropic's road to the top of the AI startup mountain with @micahloewinger.bsky.social and @onthemedia.bsky.social, and how it shrewdly exploited its reputation as the 'ethical' AI company to win over investors, the media—and the pope.
Polymarket offered me enough money to pay my rent for ten months for one post in my newsletter and I turned it down because I enjoy being able to sleep at night.
Molly Knight
Brian Merchant
Anthropic visited the Vatican and gave a speech as the Pope presented his encyclical on AI. The next week, Anthropic filed for what is likely to be the largest IPO in history. @bcmerchant.bsky.social explains how these events are related: on-the-media.visitlink.me/-Rowuq
INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes.
We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way
www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
on-the-media.visitlink.me
www.politico.com
The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.
I also got offered money to promote polymarket and I turned it down. I can't support this bullshit, I have morals.
I've listened to @onthemedia.bsky.social for years. Should be required listening for journalists
1. Polymarket, the prediction market that promotes itself as a "truth machine," is sponsoring posts from far-right influencers on X that push election conspiracy theories.
On the Media
Maya Kaufman
Thanks @samseder.bsky.social and @majorityreport.bsky.social for having me on to talk about our @onthemedia.bsky.social FEMA series!! Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/yE5EFTD...
Anthropic has teams of AI safety researchers. But they haven’t proposed any meaningful solutions to the fact their executives say their software could spike unemployment and eliminate around half of entry-level white-collar jobs, says @bcmerchant.bsky.social: on-the-media.visitlink.me/38mBx3
Alejandra Caraballo
Judd Legum
Kyle Clark
On the Media
Micah Loewinger
Just listened to @storyevtime.bsky.social & Maria Kuznetsova talking to @onthemedia.bsky.social about their book! Sharp analysis of how authoritarian practices can seep into a democracy so quickly that people lack the language to describe what's happening. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Man, the FEMA guy was great @micahloewinger.bsky.social -- your family safety depends on FEMA must watch @majorityreport.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdMm... his series on #FEMA here @onthemedia.bsky.social www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
How easy it is to bullshit Lesley Stahl. The credulity!
Paramount C.E.O. Promises Editorial Independence for ‘60 Minutes,’ Lesley Stahl Says www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/b...
