Welcome to Axis ProRata, a podcast that takes just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech business and politics.

I'm Dan Pramak. On today's show, Apple makes a push into terrestrial radio and one data point that favors Republicans in next week's midterms.

But first, the flip side of social media. So whenever we hear about social media nowadays and

Twitter in particular, it's usually, uh, well, awful. Someone being harassed or bullied or

outright threatened. It seems for every piece of valuable information, there can be dozens of

tweets just meant to inflame or misdirect. And all of that's very real and, of course,

worthy of more discussion. But today, I want to remind you that every once in a while, social media can

actually be a force for good. So here's a story of a guy named Aaron Gouvea, who is a public

relations professional who goes by the Twitter handle at Daddy Files, where he often writes about

raising his three boys in

central Massachusetts. Last week, his middle son, five-year-old Sam, decided to wear nail polish

to school because he thought it made his nails look, in his words, beautiful. But once Sam got

to school, a lot of his friend disagreed, and he was teased and called names. And when the school

day ended in Aaron's words,

Sam collapsed into his mother's arms and cried uncontrollably. So Aaron tweeted about it,

with Sam's permission. It got retweeted 38,000 times and liked over 75,000 times. It also got

over 4,000 comments, many of whom were other men who painted their

fingernails in solidarity with Sam and posted photos. It even got this social media response from

football star Rob Grunkowski. Hey Sam, what's up? It's Rob Grankowski here. I heard some kids at school

were giving you a hard time for wearing some nail polish. I just want to say stay strong and do

what makes you

the happiest and keep being yourself. The bottom line here, Twitter is never going to be a social

...