Vergecast: Instagram’s risky week and Big Tech earnings

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Our flagship show, The Vergecast, is where our editors make sense of the week's most important technology news every wednesday and friday. Editors discussing the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories on Friday.

The biggest news of the week was the controversy surrounding the changes to its app. We talked about Adam Mosseri's response to criticism of the changes and overall direction to make the app feel more similar to TikTok. Mosseri said that they needed to take a big step back and regroup. The whole story is walked through today.

The rest of the show focuses on the quarterly earnings of some big tech companies and what they mean for their future products.

You can listen to the full discussion here.

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