Trolling Twitter; E-Cig Efforts; Big Tech’s Big Hurdles

Squawk Pod

CNBC

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Twitter is banning political ads while Facebook defends them. Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) penned a letter urging the White House to pull flavored e-cigarettes from the market, and he has the statistics to back up his argument. Plus, one of the first internet venture capitalists and AT&T board member Geoff Yang isn’t sure how prepared Silicon Valley is for the ramifications of its technology. Happy Halloween!

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0:00.0	I'm Andrew Al-Sorkin and you're listening to Squack Pod.
0:03.0	Bring in show music please.
0:05.0	This is Squack Pod, the daily podcast brought to you by the team behind Squack Box.
0:10.0	NYC, this is C NBC Control 2.
0:12.0	C. NBC's Essential Morning Show. P. C. C.R. 2. Fox. Today, sub-tweeting.
0:22.9	His Twitter stuff is kind of interesting.
0:25.0	It's fascinating.
0:26.0	Twitter CEO banning political ads just before Facebook CEO jumped on his company's quarterly earnings
0:31.8	call. And it was totally trolling.
0:34.5	The push to end vaping.
0:36.0	28% of high schoolers are vaping,
0:39.2	and 5% of middle schoolers are vaping.
0:42.4	These statistics are alarming and the trend. percent of middle schoolers are vaping.
0:42.5	These statistics are alarming and the trend is not good.
0:46.0	Congressman Raja Krishnamurthy urging the White House to pull flavored
0:49.1	E-Sigs from the market.
0:51.3	And Silicon Valley veteran Jeff Yang. We're definitely under fire. Why? it's I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. It's Thursday, October 31st, 2019.
1:04.6	Happy thanks.
1:05.4	Not happy, thanks, you, happy,
1:06.2	you, happy Halloween's coming.
1:08.2	Thanksgiving is not far off.
1:11.2	Squawk Pod begins right now.
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