Twitter has given access to its API for various reasons over the years, and people use it. There's consumer dissonance around this, around privacy and trust. I think that most likely Elon winks at someone and gives them a list of people that don't support his lies and bullshit. And also just to be blunt, he's just not going to recapture the 80% or 70% of advertising revenue that he's lost. He's not, the ads are so fucked up on that site now. Do you, would you trust him?
The Fed eases up on the brakes, Elon Musk looks for new ways to monetize Twitter, and Snap has another rough quarter. Also: Meta may have prevailed in a fight with the FTC. Today’s Friend of Pivot is Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the DOJ. He stops by to discuss Google, antitrust, and his agency's fight against monopolies.
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