Welcome to Xus ProRata, where we take just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics.

Sponsored by Bridge Bank. Be safe. Venture wisely. I'm Dampra Mac. On today's show, the PPP gets extended and Google gets sued by its incognito users.

But first, the end.

Sort of.

So today is the 386th and final pro rata podcast.

On June 15th, we will unveil a new show that shares lots of DNA with this one, including me,

but with a new name, new schedule, and slightly different format.

So stay tuned to changes within this feed. You don't need to subscribe

to a new one. If you got this one, it'll work. For today, though, I want to revisit the topic from

our original show, which we aired on July 23, 2018, titled The Incredible Shrinking Techlash.

Here's what I said at the time while talking to Axios co-founder, Mike Allen. There's a lot of speculation that when Trump came into the White House, some of the administration,

maybe him, kind of had these fever dreams of breaking up big tech companies like Facebook.

Was that just something we on the outside thought or was that actually happening on the

inside in terms of sentiment?

No, Dan, they talked about it.

They did fantasize about it.

So a lot has obviously changed since then.

Pandemics, protests, we got an election around the corner.

But questions about the relationship between big tech and Washington, D.C. persist.

And the tech lashes strength or weakness could help determine not only our next president,

but also the future of our public health

and sense of justice. So in 20 seconds, we'll go deeper. Again joined by Mike Allen. But first,

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