There's kind of what I'll call the espionage threat. It sounds like when they spy on journalists as they were with you, that's the espionage threat and most social media companies in one way or another have been accused of engaging in this. The other threat, and I would argue it's the bigger one, is the propaganda threat. And that's not access to user data as much as it's access to the algorithm such that you could just elegantly put your thumb on the scale of anti-American content.
Short sellers come to Jack Dorsey's Block, Apple's employees don't like what they're seeing in the company's AR device, and there's peace in the Silicon Valley Bank tonight. Also, NPR cancels four podcasts, the SEC gets serious about crypto, and Twitter Blue's latest feature is... pretending you don't pay for Twitter Blue? Journalist Emily Baker-White joins Kara and Scott to discuss her work on TikTok, and the stories that led ByteDance employees to spy on her.
Find Emily Baker-White on Twitter at @ebakerwhite.
Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT or go to nymag.com/pivot.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices