On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that during a Q&A session with staff, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company would be a lot smaller in 2023 and they would be introducing layoffs. This is the first major budget cuts and smart found at the company in 2004. How do you think he's feeling with it? I'm curious how you think he deals with, I don't know if it's failure exactly, but it's definitely not success right now. And so we'll see if it warms the house or burns it down.
Kara loves air fryer TikToks. But she only dares to scroll through them on a burner phone, as she tells TikTok’s Chief Operating Officer, Vanessa Pappas.
As the social media platform has gone gangbusters – accumulating over a billion monthly users globally – concerns have emerged about TikTok’s ownership structure and roots in China. The U.S. government has questions about what data the app is amassing, whether that data can be accessed by the Chinese Communist Party and if the platform is a tool for espionage or foreign interference and propaganda. Kara has those questions too. And she asks Pappas all of them.
Before the interview, Kara and Nayeema talk about the newsmakers of the day. They scan through the Elon Musk text messages released in the Twitter-Musk proceedings and explore what the texts reveal about Silicon Valley’s powerful elite – including Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. They also discuss recent layoffs at Meta – and how Mark Zuckerberg will navigate the company’s recent struggles without his former right-hand exec, Sheryl Sandberg.
You can find Kara and Nayeema on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema.
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