Can Threads Take Down Twitter?
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers talk about Threads, the new competitor to Twitter. They also discuss Janet Yellen’s trip to China and what it means for American foreign policy. Finally, have tipping and service charges gone too far?
In the plus segment: Pregnant workers now have more workplace rights.
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| 0:18.8 | Hello, welcome to slate money your guide to the business and finance news of the week I'm Felix someone of Axios here with my colleague Emily Peck. |
| 0:23.0 | Hi. We're here with Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times and other places. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello. |
| 0:28.8 | We are going to talk about Threads, which is the new Twitter killing app from Meta, aka Facebook. |
| 0:36.4 | We are going to talk about US-China relations. |
| 0:41.0 | Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, is in China. So we're going to talk about what she's saying and what it means and what's happening to trade between these two countries. |
| 0:50.0 | We are going to talk about tipping and service charges and whether it is all out of control. |
| 0:56.2 | We have a slate plus segment on a new act that is protecting pregnant workers when they're at work. |
| 1:05.0 | It's all coming up on slate money. |
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