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Ben Goggin
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deputy tech editor, NBC News — online investigations, extremism, child safety — tech/politics/culture Signal: beng.38 https://linktr.ee/bengoggin My newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/bgoggin [email protected] [email protected]
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you!
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 2d
Hot Twin Cities Marathon today, but was still about to PR at 3:46:08 ☺️ congrats to everyone who ran #running
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 4d
The New York Times gave Diane’s place 2 stars in August — calling it one of the restaurants “Making Minneapolis the American Capital of Hmong Food.”

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Two Restaurants Are Making Minneapolis the American Capital of Hmong Food
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 4d
Carb loading for the Twin Cities marathon on Sunday — got to try Diane’s Place, Food and Wine’s best restaurant of 2025. Was so good 🤤
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 5d
In Minneapolis for the Twin Cities marathon on Sunday. Let me know if you are here or running! #running
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 5d
After a day with Sora, I’m convinced that this will quickly shift many people’s comfort with deepfakes being made of them, for better or for worse
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 6d
I feel like Brands will not be happy about Sora 2 lol
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 6d
Historic things happening on Sora
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 6d
Horrifying stuff 😞
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 6d
First thing I see when I open the Sora explore page? Tons of MLK Jr and JFK deepfakes 🤔
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 6d
"Sam Altman singing in a toilet."

Could a lede get any better?
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OpenAI’s AI video app stirs copyright questions, pumping out videos of Mario and Pikachu
The new social media app featuring realistic AI-generated videos and audio is in high demand amid swirling questions about copyright.
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 8d
This is horrifying — journalist wheeled out from covering immigration court in New York in a neckbrace after ICE agents assaulted photographers
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ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork
ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 8d
OpenAI’s Sora mascot is basically like Baby Yoda for Big AI. Reputation issue? Slap a cute thing on it!
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 8d
California bill regulating top AI companies signed into law
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California bill regulating top AI companies signed into law
The law is one of the first in the U.S. to place new regulations on AI companies.
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 9d
Senators urge investigation into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving after train crossing incidents www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Senators urge investigation into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving after train crossing incidents
The letter comes after NBC News reviewed dozens of driver complaints alleging Tesla’s software mishandled train crossings.
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 11d
These Sketchers ads are not going over well with New York City subway riders
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 11d
U.S. rejects international AI oversight at U.N. General Assembly

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U.S. rejects international AI oversight at U.N. General Assembly
While heads of state and world experts highlighted risks and opportunities from AI, U.S. representatives expressed deep opposition to any global effort to govern the technology.
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 11d
ICE arrests superintendent of Iowa's largest public school district

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ICE arrests superintendent of Iowa's largest public school district
The agency said Ian Andre Roberts, a Guyana national and superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, was in the country illegally and had a final order of removal.
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 14d
NEW: DHS issued a warning earlier this year about extremist use of Discord to radicalize US kids. from @kevincollier.bsky.social
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Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year
Discord has drawn increased attention in recent weeks after reports that the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing used the platform.
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 14d
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How Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters is pushing Christianity in schools
Ryan Walters, who called a teachers union a “terrorist organization” and pushed for prayer in public schools, offers a preview of what could be coming in other Republican-led states.
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 14d
From the same man who appointed Libs of TikTok to oversee school library books
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 15d
Secret Service agents dismantle network that could shut down New York cellphone system www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Secret Service agents dismantle network that could shut down New York cellphone system
Agents discovered electronic devices in five locations in and around the city that could be used to disable cellphone towers. The system could also be used for criminal activites.
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 18d
What sad is even Grok tells people this is fake, but people are either so lazy or so want to hate another group that the belief has become pervasive.

It’s purely fiction that’s been seeded online for years that’s now becoming a collective delusion propagated by the government
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 18d
The fact that nearly half the country has been duped into a 4chan trolling operation that pushes a completely false narrative that there is some trans terror cell is actually terrifying

An ounce of research quickly reveals that this isn’t true, but people can’t resist low-effort sensationalism
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 19d
I post a lot more about my running on my Instagram www.instagram.com/benjamin_gog...