{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_yffbw6go7kgl7mfvcwiq","title":"'Burn it to the ground' — Mark Little on the future of social media","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/burn-it-to-the-ground-mark-little-on-the-future-of-social-media-yffbw6go7k","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_yffbw6go7kgl7mfvcwiq","seq":553051,"kind":"article","title":"'Burn it to the ground' — Mark Little on the future of social media","url":"https://www.independent.ie/podcasts/burn-it-to-the-ground-mark-little-on-the-future-of-social-media/a/162288932.html","summary":"When Mark Little sold his news verification startup Storyful to Rupert Murdoch for $25m, he was summoned to the Australian’s New York office. “Let’s go make some f***ing money,” Murdoch told him, according to Little.In this week’s episode of the Big Tech Show, the former RTE anchorman-turned-entrepreneur talks in depth about his time running Twitter in Ireland, his challenges as a startup founder and what he thinks about the future of social media and AI.…","published":"2026-09-29T00:05:00Z","seen":"2026-09-29T01:06:28Z","lang":"en","country":"IE","source":{"id":"kite-independent-ie-ea6852","name":"independent.ie","domain":"independent.ie","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q1590833","name":"Irish Independent","type":"newspaper","country":"IE","designations":["daily newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-independent-ie-ea6852","topics":["podcasts"],"entities":[{"id":"Q1401421","name":"Mark Little","type":"person"}],"image":"https://prod-img.independent.ie/public/incoming/xdt2sj-deel-wide-image-4502x3000-100-1-4.jpg/alternates/BASE_SIXTEEN_NINE/Deel%20Wide%20Image%204502x3000-100%201%204.jpg","story":"st_yffbw6go7kgl7mfvcwiq","category":"science-technology","category_p":0.33000001311302185,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.23000000417232513,"political":0.07999999821186066}]}