Jack Benjamin

@jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social

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Senior reporter and podcast host for The Media Leader, a trade publication focused on all things commercial media. Writer, journalist, American in London.

Meta's EMEA Vice President responds to concerns around smart glasses by claiming Meta has a "privacy review" process for new consumer products and that its LED light, which shines when the camera is active (and which mods have been able to disable) is a sufficient safety feature.

In the 1941 movie “Citizen Kane,” Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper publisher who, like Bezos, is one of the richest men in the world, is confronted by his legal guardian, Walter Thatcher, about the folly of funding his paper. “Honestly, my boy, don’t you think it’s rather unwise to continue this philanthropic enterprise, this Inquirer that’s costing you a million dollars a year?” Thatcher demands. “You’re right, Mr. Thatcher. I did lose a million dollars last year,” Kane replies. “I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I’ll have to close this place in sixty years.” Update Kane’s outlays to assume losses of a hundred million annually, in perpetuity. By that math, Bezos would have more than two millennia before needing to turn out the lights. ♦