Facebook's Russia problem (pt.2), Zoom's soaring market cap, and a prediction on Shopify

Pivot

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Technology, News Commentary, News, Tech News

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about Russian election interference found on Facebook and Twitter. They also discuss Zoom quadrupling revenue in the past year and what the company should do with their new found power. We get a listener mail question from Australia about a new law that would require Facebook and Google to share ad revenue with content publishers. In predictions, Scott foresees big spending from Shopify. 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 Fox Media podcast network.
0:06.3	I'm Cara Swisher and I'm Scott Callaway.
0:09.3	Again, Scott, we meet.
0:10.4	This is three times this week.
0:11.6	There you go.
0:12.6	What do you think about this?
0:13.6	There you go.
0:14.6	I never get our last pivot school was yesterday and I thought it was really strong.
0:18.6	It was fan-tied.
0:19.6	I hated yesterday's session less than I've hated any session in a long time.
0:24.0	Really?
0:25.0	It's such an ex-weight to talk about our relationship.
0:26.6	What did you like about it?
0:27.6	I want to be, stand the positivity zone, Scott.
0:30.4	I think President Frederick is that a slice of the right?
0:34.3	Frederick, yes.
0:35.3	I thought he was inspiring.
0:37.3	A guy who lost his dad at three from, I believe they were from Chinabad, Tobago, who
0:44.3	went on to be a surgeon and then be the president of what is probably the top ranked historically
0:50.8	Black College in the world.
0:54.0	He's just an inspiration and he just struck me as incredibly just the kind of guy you
0:58.7	want, shepherding an important organization.
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