"They Knew Better,” Says Kara Swisher: Why Big Tech Turns a Blind Eye to Trump’s Depravity

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, host Brian Stelter talks to Kara Swisher, the crusading tech journalist, ahead of her forthcoming release, Burn Book, a no-holes-barred accounting of the tech titans who are wresting more and more control over the American economy—and attention span. They discuss the absurd antics of Elon Musk, the follies of Mark Zuckerberg’s privacy policies, and why the industry is in dire need of more capital “A” adults. “They don't feel like they have any responsibility for the things they say and the impact it has in the real world,” she tells Stelter. “And that’s always been a pressing issue for me as 2016 dawned, when you could see the implications of it.

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0:32.3	read watch and hear. Vanity Fair. Cara, you could have covered anything, any part of this weird wonderful world.
0:48.0	Cara, you could have covered anything, any part of this weird wonderful world. Why did you land on
0:55.3	tech? Why Silicon Valley? Oh Brian, I don't know. I regret it now. These many 30 years
1:02.3	hence. No, I just loved it the minute I
1:04.9	started covering it. It was so interesting to me. It was love at first sight.
1:08.6	That's the one the only Kara Swisher, the pioneering tech reporter behind brands like
1:14.8	all things D and RICO. She now hosts the On with Kara Swisher podcast, she
1:20.0	co-hosts Pivot and she's the author of a brand new memoir called Burn Book, which
1:24.9	comes out next week. And I'm Brian Stelter. Let me welcome you to
1:29.7	Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair. This week we're going inside what Swisher calls a
1:34.7	tech love story. That's the subtitle of Burnbook. Swisher has been covering
1:40.3	tech since the early days of Netscape.
1:42.6	She's made relationships, she's lost relationships with the tech
1:45.4	founders and CEOs that have changed our world.
1:48.0	And Kara, you say you've gradually transformed from a journalist to more of an advocate.
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