Sean Hannity has a meltdown. Twitter, Facebook and Google tackle misinformation. Softbank abandons WeWork. PLUS Quibi gets a break.

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about Sean Hannity defending his work at Fox News (after Kara called him out for spreading misinformation in the early days of COVID-19). They discuss how the big tech companies are dealing with fact-checking politicians for public health information accuracy. Meanwhile, Softbank is scrapping its buy out of Adam Neumann's shares at WeWork. Also, Kara and Scott talk about several labor strikes that took place this week -- will COVID-19 be a reckoning for corporate America? In Listener Mail, we get a question about whether Quibi's launch during quarantine will accelerate its growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:21.1	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Cara Swisher.
1:26.2	And Cara, you've had this is Scott Gallo, you literally broke the internet. So Sean Hannity
1:33.8	put out nine tweets. I have never been this channel. Sean Hannity has put out. No, it's not nine.
1:39.4	He did a bunch last night, but I don't know who you're talking about. I have no idea who you're
1:43.0	talking about. Well, he's supposedly he's in TV. He's nodded. He's claims he's not a journalist.
1:49.6	And he claims he's been warning America and the world about COVID-19 despite, I think,
1:54.4	I think giving the president platform to call it a hoax and bringing anyone on who will say that
1:59.2	we're we're having a hysterical reaction. You've really got under his skin.
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