Apr 14th 2022
Tech News Weekly 230
Musk's Offer To Buy Twitter
Hosted by
Jason Howell,
Mikah Sargent
Instagram DM Harassment, Twitter NFT's Value Decline, CNN+ Stumbles
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Guests:
Imran Ahmed,
Owen Thomas
- Imran Ahmed from the Center For Countering Digital Hate talks about the negligence of Instagram in protecting women from misogynistic harassment via direct message on the platform.
- Owen Thomas from Protocol walks through the possibilities facing Twitter in light of Elon Musks' offer to buy the company.
- Owen Thomas sticks around to shed light on the Dorsey tweet NFT that sold for millions in 2021 and is now struggling to bring in six figures in 2022.
- Mikah's story of the week shows how CNN+ is fighting for daily active users a few weeks after launch.
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Links
- DM Abuse: Instagram ‘Negligent’ Over Misogynist Harassment of Women in the Public Eye.
- Hidden Hate: How Instagram Fails to Act On 9 in 10 Reports of Misogyny in DMs
- Elon's New Twitter Plan
- Elon Musk Isn't Joining Twitter's Board After All
- Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet-Turned-NFT Is Worth About as Much as You’d Think Now
- CNN+ Struggles to Lure Viewers in Its Early Days, Drawing Fewer Than 10,000 Daily Users