“MySpace had neither the edge of a New York City digital media startup. Nor the loose libertarian spirit of Silicon Valley.”
– American writer
Joanne McNeil, recalling a more innocent era of social media. In the first episode of
Main Accounts, her new podcast on the rise and fall of
MySpace in the 2000s, McNeil engages journalists
Julie Angwin and
Taylor Lorenz about the social network’s spyware-adjacent origins and its infamous 2005 sale to News Corp.