Tucker goes to Hungary, the Taliban take Afghanistan, and a Friend of Pivot on why Epstein couldn't have killed himself

Pivot

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News Commentary, News, Technology, Tech News

4.3 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Guest host Ben Smith joins Kara to discuss Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban, and what it means for news coverage of the region. And: a new business deal aims to bring movies back to movie theaters. But will audiences follow? Also, Friend of Pivot Julie K. Brown joins us to discuss her reporting in Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.9	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast
0:39.6	Network. I'm Cara Swisher. Scott Galloway is appearing in the new Suicide Squad
0:43.8	movie, so this week I'm happy to be joined by Ben Smith of The New York Times.
0:47.4	Hey Ben. Hey Cara. I think I have to start to ask you a question about a
0:51.4	couple of things. The video sharing site Rumble, popular with many conservative
0:55.0	viewers, has announced content deals with Tulsi Gabbard and Glenn Greenwald.
0:58.5	Well, that's a dinner party. I don't want to go to. So unlike YouTube, Rumble does
1:02.5	not ban videos for spreading medical misinformation. Senator Rand Paul mentioned
1:06.1	Rumble is an alternative after he was banned from YouTube last week.
1:09.6	If you want to see the video, it's up on Rumble.com. Rumble.com does not
1:14.4	sense of the news. In Rumble's chief executive, Chris Pavlovsky claims a
1:19.2	site went from one million users last summer to 30 million users say still
1:22.6	tiny in comparison to YouTube. What thinks you of Rumble?
1:27.5	Well, I guess first of all, I would totally love to go to that dinner party,
1:30.4	particularly because of Rio, where Glenn lives.
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