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

The MediaShift Podcast by Mark Glaser

Sep 22, 201700:36:16Technology

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...