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 musk-twitter-deal-complete.html">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 musk-visits-twitter.html">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 apple-audiobooks-app.html">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.