AT&T's TimeWarner/Discovery+ super merger and GLAAD's report on social media platforms

Pivot

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🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about AT&T spinning off their streaming service Time Warner and combining it with Discovery+ to compete with streaming content giants. They also discuss Twitter's potential new subscription service "Twitter Blue" (ya heard it here first!) Then we're joined by GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis to discuss the organization's new report that looks at safety for the LGBTQ community across social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. This is Pivot from New York Magazine in the Vox Media podcast network. I'm
0:08.3	Cara Swisher and I'm Scott Galloway. What is up with the news this weekend? Scott
0:13.1	I'm going on Cara pick up my son at college and bring him from NYU and like drama all
0:19.9	over the place mergers drama Bill Gates everything like all over the place Elon Musk hating
0:25.9	on Bitcoin etc. All right, let's start with Bill Gates. We have to talk about this in New
0:30.1	York Times publishing article making allegations that Microsoft founder made many unwanted advances
0:34.3	on employees over the years. The Wall Street Journal reported that Bill Gates 2020 resignation
0:39.0	from Microsoft board of directors came after the board hired a law firm to investigate a romantic
0:42.6	relationship and inappropriate one he had with a Microsoft employee. Another I guess it was
0:47.9	Daily Beast said he hung out with Jeffrey Epstein and got marriage advice from him which I'm not
0:52.3	sure about that one but he did hang out with him more than he said and it was an issue of contention
0:56.6	and then Bill Gates's money manager it was involved in a sexual harassment issue with a person
1:01.7	at a bike store they I don't even understand it but Melinda was not happy about how that was handled
1:06.7	plus the Epstein thing which led to the divorce which is where we are which is where she would be
1:10.8	one of the richest women in the world. Anyway, so what up what up Scott I think you were surprised.
1:16.6	Yeah, I was really shocked by it to be honest. I only know what's in the news and you know
1:26.4	these people on a personal level. I just be curious you just have more authority to speak to
1:34.9	the situation than I do. I don't know them. There were rumors that they had it on happy marriage
1:39.6	but there's lots of rumors about people right? It's not what I cover and he had a pretty
1:45.6	I mean everyone sort of knew it's Microsoft and it's been chronicled and there were several
1:50.4	real problems that you people there. They had a lot of partying in the early days and you know
1:55.2	there was a whole report about strippers in the early days. He was a single guy. I don't know what
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