Russia vs. Big Tech, Facebook Responds (Dismissively), and Friend of Pivot Max Chafkin on Peter Thiel

Pivot

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News Commentary, News, Technology, Tech News

4.3 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Kara and Scott unpack Russia's fight with Big Tech, Facebook's disappointing response to the Wall Street Journal’s revealing series, and how streaming swept the Emmys. Also, Kara has a big announcement. (Hint: She confirms that Scott is NOT the father). Plus, Friend of Pivot Max Chafkin on Peter Thiel and his new book, The Contrarian. You can find Max on Twitter at @chafkin. Send us your Listener Mail questions, via Yappa, at nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.6	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York Magazine on the Vox Media
1:10.7	Podcast Network. I'm Scott Galway and Cara Swisher has a cold.
1:15.0	I'm Cara Swisher with a very bad cold.
1:17.7	We have such really big news here and I'm very serious.
1:22.8	Yes, Scott is getting a Vesectomani. No, no, no, no, no. It's related. It's related.
1:28.9	It's related. Do you want to break an in or should I?
1:31.9	I shall because it is not about you. Oh, everything's about me. Come on, go ahead.
1:36.0	I'll bring it back to Mancer as well. I'll be able to do this because you love
1:39.8	my children so much and because you always talk about how I'm a perfect parent,
1:43.4	which I am. I've decided that it's a good idea and of course I had nothing to do with it.
1:47.4	That we have yet another child, my lovely wife and I am
1:50.6	a man or having another baby do in December. So we are four kids. That's what we're doing.
1:56.3	We're being very inappropriate. Are we allowed to talk about the sex of the kid?
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