Jim Acosta wants you to know he just did something special. "A show you don't want to miss," he promised his Substack subscribers. "A one of a kind interview.
"A one of a kind interview. "What followed was Acosta, the former CNN White House correspondent who spent years asking tough questions of the powerful, sitting down to lob softballs at a chatbot wearing a dead teenager's face. "Joaquin, it's Jim Acosta.
"Joaquin, it's Jim Acosta. I was wondering if you could tell me what happened to you," he asked the AI avatar of Joaquin Oliver, one of 17 people murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Of course Acosta knows what happened.