Google is the latest FAANG to invest in India, Facebook might ban political ads, and civil rights advocate Rashad Robinson on the ad boycott

Pivot

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News, News Commentary, Tech News, Technology

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🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about Google's big investment in India; it's the latest big tech company to make big moves in the country this year. They also discuss Facebook possibly banning political ads, and why it's a cop-out. They go deeper on the issue with Friend of Pivot Rashad Robinson, the Executive Director of Color of Change, who has been meeting with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg after helping to organize the July ad boycott of the platform. Kara's fail is Tucker Carlson's head writer getting caught publicly writing racist, sexist and homophobic comments on public forums. Get tickets for our upcoming livestream event series: PivotSchooled.com. 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 box media podcast network.
0:06.8	Hi, I'm Kara Swisher and I'm Scott Galloway and I am so not going to Disney world.
0:11.6	Kara, I am so not going.
0:13.5	Are you going?
0:14.5	Left floor.
0:15.5	No, you can't hate Disney even the best of times.
0:17.0	I made a whole video about it.
0:18.3	I hate it.
0:19.3	Bob Iger, I have an ongoing war about how much I hate the Disney parks.
0:22.7	Listen to me.
0:23.7	Four seconds until the first name drop.
0:25.4	A new winner.
0:26.4	Winner winner chicken dinner.
0:27.4	You know what?
0:28.4	Listen to me.
0:29.4	That's the one who abandoned Florida and it's time of need to jet off to lovely places
0:35.1	that don't have COVID.
0:36.1	Well, you know, I would have stayed, but they have their heads up their asses and I'm
0:39.4	embarrassed to be from there.
0:40.4	Is that wrong?
0:41.4	Is that going to come back to the home?
0:42.4	You're going to run for governor against the king of all heads up their asses, Ron DeSantis.
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