He needs to play nice and kiss some serious advertiser ass right now. The US Attorney's Office is investigating whether Amazon downplayed a poor safety record in order to get credit from lenders. They should focus on the safety record or whether they told the truth, but this seems like a turduck into me,. I don't know about you. It felt like that big tech has become such an easy punching bag.
Biden will get a new Chief of Staff, the U.S. Attorney has questions for Amazon, and Elon takes the stand. Over at Netflix: strong subscriber growth, and Reed Hastings is out as Co-CEO. And of course, more layoffs. Then we’re joined by Friend of Pivot Cory Doctorow on his new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back.”
Cory is on Twitter at @doctorow and you can find his book here.
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