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Oh No, What is Jim Acosta Doing?

The former CNN host "interviewed" an AI avatar of one of the Parkland shooting victims.

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Parker Molloy
Aug 05, 2025
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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.”

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.

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