john swartz: is it also maybe a less toxic version of twitter, and maybe absent of fake news? i mean, that seems to have driven a lot of people away from twitter in particular. sue: yeah, that's the goal, is that by having a phone number sign in, most people only have one phone, so that prevents people from having 30 pseudonym email accounts. and it's not gonna ever prevent trolling and harassment entirely, because it's the internet, but we have a lot of safeguards in for that. laura sydell: i noticed i went, and i tried it, and i was reading a little about it, and one thing i noticed though is, right now the business model is that the stuff that people are writing is where the money's coming from. so the ads are basically incorporated into posts that you have people writing. so, i wondered about that, because that, of course, as a journalist, raises some questions for me about how accurate the content will be. will it be swayed in a certain way? sue: yeah, you know, the ads that we have in it now are in our weekly blogs that we have people write. just like if you had a "new y

our reporters, john swartz of "usa today," and national public radio's laura sydell, this week on "pressott mcgrew: good morning, everyone, i'm scott mcgrew. i was looking over a list of past guests on the show and i was struck by how many of them, at some point in their career, worked at yahoo. yahoo, remember, was the valley's first big dot-com success story, and for many executives, it was a strange, and often frustrating, chapter in their lives. here are just a few of them.