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Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 19 January 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Hive’s tech reporter and millennial expert, Maya Kosoff, joins us to explain why the government may soon start regulating social media companies, why you should delete Facebook from your phone ASAP, whether Snap will survive the assault of Mark Zuckerberg, and why the White House should build a “fake” alternate Twitter that only Trump sees, replete with fake likes and fake retweets, and maybe even a fake Oval Office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, we are live inside the hive of Vanity Fair, and we're going to actually talk to one of my favorite reporters today, Maya Kosoff, who has lots of claims to fame, one of which
0:18.2	was being hate-tweeted by Donald Trump last week. We'll get to that later in the show.
0:24.0	Mike, can you just give our listeners a little kind of overview
0:27.3	of who you are and how you ended up here?
0:30.6	Yeah, so I am a tech reporter for Vanity Fair.
0:34.2	I work for The Hive.
0:35.9	I've been here for about two years now.
0:38.5	And I kind of write on all things, tech, and some politics
0:41.2	and some media stuff too.
0:43.0	Before that I was at Business Insider for about a year and a half,
0:47.0	and before that I was in school.
0:49.0	So, um...
0:50.0	In school, so wait, so that means that you are an official millennial?
0:54.0	I'm very like middle of the road millennial.
0:56.3	I'm 25, yes.
0:57.6	Wow, this is going to be a fascinating company.
0:59.9	I feel like I'm like Steve Irwin and I just climbed into the jungle and I'm about to like show
1:05.0	people how alligators feed in the wild. All right well since you're a
1:09.8	Mallealio let's get straight to it. It's been kind of, you know, beginning of the year already,
1:15.9	Facebook, God knows what is going on with them. Zuckerberg said that his challenge this year, he has that yearly challenge where he, you know,
1:25.0	learns Mandarin or, you know, travels the country trying to decide if he wants to become president or drinks his own urine for a year or whatever it is that he does.
1:33.8	This year he's going to, what exactly is he going to do?
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