Facebook readies the ship, Robinhood looting, Katy Tur on election night and Ant Group

Pivot

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Tech News, News, Technology, News Commentary

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Kara and Scott talk about the measures Facebook will put in place if there is unrest after the election. They also discuss funds being looted on the Robinhood app; the company does not have a system to retrieve these funds for users. Then Friend of Pivot, MSNBC anchor, NBC News correspondent, and NYT Bestselling author, Katy Tur, joins the podcast to discuss differences between the weeks leading to 2016's election and 2020's vote. In wins, Ant Group – Jack Ma's company – is having the biggest IPO in history. 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 and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:06.1	I'm Cara Swisher.
0:07.3	And I'm Leslie Stahl.
0:08.7	You wish you were Leslie Stahl.
0:10.3	I do wish I was Leslie Stahl.
0:11.6	Do you want to be introduced to Leslie Stahl?
0:13.8	You know, I have a story about Leslie Stahl.
0:16.4	Okay, go ahead.
0:17.4	Benny often invited me to this celebration of Times Man of the Year and that's when I realized
0:22.9	he had purchased time magazine.
0:25.1	It was Andrew Ross Sorkin, Leslie Stahl, all these kind of, I don't know, icons of journalism
0:31.9	and me.
0:32.9	And I literally, I got there and I looked around and then they had one of those, Posse de
0:36.7	Nomingo, I forget who's the blind, who's the blind singer?
0:40.8	Who's the one who's got it?
0:41.8	It's like that.
0:42.8	It's the all amazing voices.
0:43.8	Yeah, that guy, yeah, okay.
0:44.8	And his son, who also has an amazing voice.
0:46.8	Uh-huh.
0:47.8	And I'm sitting around this table in a midtown thing and I'm like, for a moment, I literally
0:51.8	thought, okay, there's a, yeah.
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