Since 2016, more industry insiders, including genuine editors and journalists, have been leaving their jobs to create their own media outlets and newsletters to expose the status quo. This is real journalism!

I am one of those who burned bridges in the tech and AI sector to challenge the lies and nonsense promoted by tech entrepreneurs. As an insider in this sector for almost 25 years, I have been considered a “traitor”, and I faced attacks for my stance calling out the AI hype since 2019, before it became fashionable.

But now those same attackers have gone quiet because the truth ultimately prevails. Apart from Peter Thiel, who describes people like me as “Legionaires of the Anti-Christ” – BTW, I will be printing this on T-shirts. Keep an eye on our new merch store.

Similar situations have occurred with real journalists who have faced attacks and, in some tragic cases, even been murdered for uncovering the truth about political and corporate corruption, crimes, and disinformation campaigns. I have had several of these brilliant journalists and analysts as guests on The CEO Retort podcast.

However, there is a new threat. I am noticing legacy media “editors” infiltrating the independent space, pretending to be independent voices while relying on the same financial backers that support the status quo — namely, the oligarchs and their associates.

They use their “credentials” to create additional layers of noise, clickbait, and ragebait, masquerading as “independent journalism.” Hence, making it more difficult for the truth to reach you.

This is why I founded and launched The Retort last month, a media outlet that is built differently:

• We refuse to “swim with the noise” or participate in platforms with compromised moderation filled with pro-Nazi content, AI-generated garbage, and tools designed to exploit women and children.
• We are hosted on our own EU-based servers, in partnership with trusted providers (such as Proton), to ensure a secure and forensic environment.

I am not a synthesis journalist; rather, I am a scientist and entrepreneur auditing technology from the inside out, after a quarter of a century in the AI trenches.

The layers of lies, AI slop, misinformation and disinformation (AKA: the masks) are getting thicker, and unmasking them is becoming significantly more challenging. Hence, we need your help.

If you value a “Clean Room” for independent intelligence, I urge you to join us.

Subscribe now at retortmedia.com/support and help us fund the forensic audits that the status quo is trying to conceal. If you are an insider and wish to contribute anonymously, get in touch at editors@retortmedia.com.

Knowledge is power. Please don’t neglect it!