We look into the company’s weird new future with Times tech reporter Kate Conger. Plus, how Apple is single-handedly deciding the future of the digital economy, and a social media death watch.

Guest today:

Kate Conger • , a technology reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times

Additional resources:

• Elon Musk has closed the $44 billion deal to own Twitter. • In the lead up to the deadline to complete the acquisition of the social media service, Elon Musk visited Twitter’s San Francisco office • and sought to reassure advertisers • about his plans for the platform through a Tweet. • Spotify has struggled to bring audiobooks onto its platform after Apple rejected Spotify’s new app three times. • The CEO of Altimeter Capital, the hedge fund and Meta shareholder, wrote a critical open letter to Meta and Mark Zuckerberg.

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