Comedian Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to interview FTC Chair Lina Khan

Comedian Jon Stewart said Apple asked him not to interview Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan on a podcast while he was hosting his Apple TV+ show “The Problem With Jon Stewart.”

His TV show ran for two seasons before ending abruptly in October.

“I gotta tell you, I wanted to have you on a podcast, and Apple asked us not to do it, to have you,” Stewart told Khan during an episode of “The Daily Show” Monday. “They literally said, ‘Please don’t talk to her.’”

Stewart asked Khan why the company might be “afraid” to have certain conversations out in public. Khan said it “shows one of the dangers of what happens when you concentrate so much power and so much decision-making in a small number of companies.”