What Next: Ticketmaster's Swift Meltdown
b'When presale tickets for Taylor Swift\\u2019s upcoming tour effectively broke the internet last week, Ticketmaster emerged as the villain\\u2026again. The media behemoth has been reviled since the \\u201890s, but it has continued to grow, through a merger with Live Nation. What can a Department of Justice antitrust investigation, buoyed by Swifties, actually do?\\xa0\\n\\nGuest: Jason Koebler, editor-in-chief of Motherboard at Vice.\\n\\nIf you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus\\u2014and you\\u2019ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'