Biden's Inflation Crisis, and Elon Musk vs. the Bots, with David Sacks, Renee DiResta, and Todd Henderson | Ep. 356

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by David Sacks of Craft Ventures and co-host of All-In, to talk about President Biden's inflation crisis, the odd job market situation, whether we're in a recession currently, hiring ramifications, why the working class is moving from the Democratic party to the Republican party, the issues that matter most to Americans, Biden's efforts to cozy up to the Saudis, the significance of the Dutch farmers protest, and more. Later, Renee DiResta, technical research manager at Stanford and disinformation expert, joins to discuss the reality of bots on Twitter, Elon Musk's bot bottle, the truth about the Russian troll farm operation, how the social media feedback loop is keeping us divided, push notifications and the battle for attention, the challenge of balancing social media suppression and reliable information, and more. And Todd Henderson, law professor at the University of Chicago, breaks down the legal battle between Twitter and Elon Musk, whether Twitter can really force Musk to buy it, what to expect next, and more

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey, everyone on Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show.
0:15.0	Wow, those inflation numbers.
0:18.1	They are worse than expected and they were expected to be terrible.
0:22.0	Hitting yet another 40 year high at 9.1% my god, that's just an eye roller.
0:30.5	Much of that is due to higher prices at the pump, at the grocery store and at home.
0:36.0	The stock market is of course dropping on the news.
0:39.0	Meantime President Biden just arrived in the Middle East where gas prices will certainly be on the agenda.
0:44.0	But in a statement he's insisting, things are not as bad as they seem all as well.
0:50.0	For Kevin Bacon and Animal House all as well remain calm.
0:53.0	They're not as bad as they seem and is once again blaming guess who Putin.
0:59.0	Fair. Well, look at to it.
1:01.0	Plus breaking up, maybe hard to do.
1:04.0	Elon Musk has been sued officially now by Twitter in Delaware in an effort to force him to complete the deal.
1:11.0	They want that quote specific performance that he promised.
1:14.0	They don't just want their billion dollar break up the they want him to buy Twitter and they're trying to force it.
1:19.0	We're going to be joined by a legal expert on that who's going to tell us whether Elon's likely to win that case or not.
1:27.0	And then a bit later we're going to talk to an expert in bot behavior and will ask her what Twitter's bot situation looks like.
1:35.0	But first we are joined today by David Saxe, a venture capitalist who runs craft ventures and is co-host of the tech podcast all in.
1:45.0	David, welcome back to the show.
1:49.0	Hey, Megan, good to be here.
1:51.0	So my God, 9.1 and it's it really is shockingly high and Biden's out there already saying don't believe your line eyes.
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