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This Week in Tech (Audio)

TWiT 906: A Bad Year for Billionaires - Twitter Trust and Safety Council firing, TikTok ban, FTX SBF arrested

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Techtv, Tech News, This Week In Technology, Twit, Leo Laporte

43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2022

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

  • Alex Barredo: @joinmastodon official account has been banned on Twitter.
  • Impulsive and Unjustified: CNN Slams Twitter for Suspending Journalists – Including Its Own Donie O'Sullivan.
  • Elon Musk Launches a Manhunt After Alarming Incident.
  • Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council, Yoel Roth flees home.
  • Elon Musk, Management Guru?
  • Senate votes to ban TikTok use on government devices.
  • What is TikTok & is TikTok Safe?
  • TikTok may push potentially harmful content to teens within minutes, study finds.
  • FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Is Arrested in the Bahamas.
  • FTX Investor Impact: Timeline of Realized Cryptocurrency Gains and Losses Shows FTX Hit Investor Wallets Less Than Previous Crises.
  • Trump Sells a New Image as the Hero of $99 Trading Cards.
  • Tesla Full Self-Driving data looks awful: We challenge Elon Musk to prove otherwise.
  • Apple backs out of Sunday Ticket negotiations with NFL.
  • Virtual Reality Pioneer John Carmack Is Leaving Meta.
  • Instagram launches new tool to help hacked users regain account access.
  • Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets.
  • ConnectSafely giving out $1K grants to schools & nonprofits.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Mike Elgan, and Larry Magid

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It's time for twit this week and tech great panel for you. Larry maggot is here from connect safely dot org

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Mike Elgin from Wahaka, Mexico and Jason Heiner editor in chief of zd net. Of course

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We're gonna have to talk a little bit about Elon will also talk about Tesla self-driving how safe it is apples

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Backing out of the Sunday ticket negotiations. Who is John mastodon and

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Should tiktok be banned that in a whole lot more including John Carmack quitting meta. It's up next on twit

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