#241: Social Platforms Help Target Ads to Racist Groups; NYC Media Lab’s Justin Hendrix

In the news this week, journalists found that Facebook, Google and Twitter all allowed them to target ads toward racist groups like “Jew haters” and “black people ruin neighborhoods.” The social platforms quickly removed those terms. A new initiative called Report for America aims to place 1,000 public service journalists into newsrooms over the next five years. Can a Peace Corps idea help boost local journalism? And the creator of the Pepe the Frog cartoon is taking legal action against alt-right groups for selling merchandise with his image. Our Metric of the Week is ARPU, and we go one-on-one with Justin Hendrix, executive director of the NYC Media Lab, to discuss his upcoming Summit next week and a new center focused on virtual and augmented reality.

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#241: Social Platforms Help Target Ads to Racist Groups; NYC Media Lab’s Justin Hendrix is an episode from The MediaShift Podcast by Mark Glaser.

This episode is 00:36:16 long.

This episode was published on Sep 22, 2017.

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