During episode 168, Co-hosts David Erickson & BL Ochman discussed Bowie, Shruggie and Crooked Hillary emojis; the battle to break fake news; Google declines to remove hate news; Facebook admits it needs human editors; @ImposterBot fights off hateful troll bots; how Santa Claus learns marketing; Yahoo's super-late hack disclosures; Wonder Woman fired by UN; tech titans meet Trumplethinskin; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between. Show Notes & Links: http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/168

During episode 167, Co-hosts David Erickson & BL Ochman discussed Facebook's blocking of a fake news detector; the real-life consequences of the fake news "Pizzagate" story; Uber's customer tracking; Reddit's demise at the hand of trolls; LiLou, SFO's therapy pig (and Instagram star); Netflix's alien-identifying algorithm; the Local Matters watchdog journalism newsletter; Amazon's employee-free retail store; BMW's self-policing cars; the best Christmas ads; the Reuters News Tracer breaking news algorithm; My Starbucks Barista Bot; Google's emoji-responding Twitter account; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between. Show Notes & Links: http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/167

During episode 166, Co-hosts David Erickson & BL Ochman discussed the Internet Archive moving to Canada; obnoxious podcasters; spying headphones; the new Telegra.ph blogging platform; the Diageo VR drunk driving experience; first-person video of the Tennessee wildfires; OK Go's amazing new music video; Amazon's conciliation ad; Planned Parenthood donations in Mike Pence's name; detecting fake news; Instagram's shopping tags; Twitter's Star Wars Rogue One Live stream, plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between. Show Notes & Links: http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/166