Jon Stewart says Apple told him not to interview FTC chair Lina Khan

Jon Stewart has accused Apple of urging him not to interview the United States' head tech regulator, Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, on his erstwhile Apple TV+ show and podcast The Problem with Jon Stewart. In an interview with Khan on The Daily Show, which Stewart is guest-hosting on Monday nights through the November election, Stewart asked Khan about her office's pursuit of anti-trust litigation against such major companies as Amazon and Kroger. When the conversation came to the rise of artificial intelligence as backed by major tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft, Stewart told Khan:…