Nick Bilton's final podcast reveals a bombshell confession from an anonymous tech CEO about billion-dollar data scandals.
- The ex-BuzzFeed tech columnist ended his popular podcast with a recording of an exec admitting companies knowingly sell user data to foreign adversaries.
- A whistleblower inside a major social media platform confirms Bilton's claims, showing internal documents that prove willful negligence of user privacy.
- The anonymous CEO says many Silicon Valley leaders privately admit their products are engineered to be addictive, comparing them to "digital heroin."
- Bilton's career retrospective includes never-before-heard stories about Steve Jobs, including a confession that Apple once deliberately slowed down iPhones to test battery marketing.
- The mogul warns a "data pandemic" is coming, predicting that within five years, most daily online activities will be heavily taxed or monitored by governments.