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211 million daily active users at last count. and meta has about 1.9 billion. so thats give or take 10% of the same audience. and it makes a lot less money. ok, what do we know? we know that the new person to replace him is parag agarwal. hes the new ceo. what do we know about him? hes been at the company since 2011, where he started as an engineer. hes been chief technology officer for the last four years. so hes been on a level with jack dorsey, talking to him directly and steering things like...

Twitters got about, i think, 211 million daily active users at last count. and meta has about 1.9 billion. so thats give or take 10% of the same audience. and it makes a lot less money. ok, what do we know? we know that the new person to replace him is parag agarwal. hes the new ceo. what do we know about him? hes been at the company since 2011, where he started as an engineer. hes been chief technology officer for the last four years. so hes been on a level withjack dorsey, talking to him direc...

Ok, and now the new ceo? we know that the new person to replace him is parag agarwal. hes the new ceo. what do we know about him? hes been at the company since 2011. where he started as an engineer. hes been chief technology officer for the last four years. hes been on a level with jack dorsey, talking to him directly and handling things like product launches for a very long time. so, hes fairly well immersed in the company. john thornhill, i want to bring you in here, tech columnist at the fina...

This week, some reporters covering the omicron variant say theyve received a torrent of abuse from people angry about the governments response and blaming the journalists. nothing new in much of this, of course. people have been shooting the messenger for centuries. but have we reached a new low? because one newspaper group even announced theyve had to disable reader comments altogether on their coverage of the tragedy in the english channel. so, does trolling mean the end of the reporter—read...

So hes fairly well embedded in the company. john thornhill, id like to bring you in here, tech columnist at the financial times, as everyone knows, who im sure has been listening. you know, the share price actually rose whenjack dorsey announced he was leaving. what do you think was going on? well, i think the company, - as isobel was saying, has been under a lot of criticism for a long time. - it hasnt performed very well, unlike facebook or meta - or google and youtube. it has really been - an...

Me its a possibility. >> public companies mislead the public, mislead the public in financials or they mislead the public in a material way in terms of their products, that can be a violation of securities laws. >> now lets stay on that and bring in kevin roos, tech columnist for the "new york times." gary gensler is talking about a publicly trading company, a fiduciary. strict mandates, many cant invest in vice investments. things like alcohol, tobacco, gambling, guns. they have in their charte...

Neighbor. he put a football tackle on rand paul. i bet you his neighbor is a bernie sanders or hillary supporter. >> "new york times" business and tech columnist, who wrote the piece on youtubes rapid response joins me now. lets talk first about -- i mean, someone uploading something to youtube is fine, the most troubling part is this algorithm elevating it, so you go to youtube to be like, what happened in sutherland springs and youre getting this. >> when i did the search for the sutherland sp...

>> when asked youtube about his account, all of williams youtube videos were turned down, because of hate speech. williams had 90,000 subscribers, sometimes posting 20 times adark, until they took him down, monologues pep perred with gross falsehoods. >> this is breaking news that nobody has this story but your doctor. they said this particular man that donald trump has implemented on the muslim affects your former president barack hussein obama. it appears that some left wing cook, it was actua...

I betcha his neighbor is a bernie sanders or hillary supporter. >> the "new york times" business and tech columnist who wrote the piece on the rapid response partisans joins me now. its a fascinating piece. there is a bunch of things happening here. lets talk about something uploading to youtube is fine, the most important part is what happened in souther land sprngs you get this? >> i think five or six of the first ten videos that showed up were these conspiratorial shock jocks who upload these...

Tackles on rand paul. i bet you his neighbor is a bernie sanders or hillary supporter. >> the "new york times" business and tech columnist who wrote the piece on the rapid response partisans joins me now. its a fascinating piece. there is a bunch of things happening here. lets talk about something uploading to youtube is fine, the most troubling part is this sort of algorithm elevating it, you search for sutherland springs and you get this. >> i think five or six of the first ten videos that sho...