Spotting Fake News & Dunkin' Donuts' Tiny Home

By David Erickson | October 21, 2018

Beyond Social Media Show, Episode 245

BL and David discuss misplaced trust on social media; Lacta’s 5Star Chocolately Mayhem commercials; the Parkland Kids and Kesha’s “Most Vicious Cycle” video; Carvana’s car vending machines; scientists outing Bots; Dunkin’ Donuts’ tiny house powered by coffee; Twitter’s new tool for spotting haters; Madden Newsjacks Linval Joseph; how to keep your kids from seeing political attach attack on YouTube; horse blinders for humans; President Obama debunking excuses not to vote; Ted Cruz’ failed Facebook livestream; Dictionary.com dissing 45…and much, much more.

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Best Digital Cases

Can You Spot Fake News?

How 14 million people were fooled by a Facebook video and how you can vet the stories you see.

https://www.facebook.com/TimeNewsInternational/videos/2187809244837800/

Chocolately Mayhem

Candy ads are supposed to be lighter fare, right? It’s candy. It’s supposed to be fun.

These Brazilian Candy Ads Are Undeniably Dark Yet Surprisingly Entertaining

Parkland Kids & Kesha’s “Most Vicious Cycle”

Kesha and The Parkland Kids teamed up with her brother Sage Sebert, McCann New York and Mill+ to illustrate the seemingly hopeless chain of events around school shootings and gun violence in a powerful new music video, “The Most Vicious Cycle.”

Kesha’s March for Our Lives Video Goes on Repeat to Illustrate the Vicious Cycle of Gun Violence

Vending Cars

The 14th car vending machine in the U.S. just opened in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, following automated car-selling fixtures in other cities.

Car Vending Machines Spread Across U.S.

MIT Prof Has a New Method for Finding Social Media Bots

“Humans talk to humans, bots talk to humans, and nobody talks to bots,” according to Tauhid Zaman, associate professor of operations management at MIT Sloan.

Coffee Power

Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee at Home, who recently launched the very literal Home That Runs on Dunkin’.

Electronic Sports Newsjacks Linval Joseph

Electronic Arts jacked the news of Linval Joseph’s 64-yard fumble recovery touchdown by bumping up the Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle’s speed rating in the video game.

Touchdown Sprint Earns Vikings DT Linval Joseph ‘Madden’ Speed Boost

Who's going to stop him, huh? pic.twitter.com/cWIfmb9mDq

— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) October 7, 2018

New Program Spotting Haters on Twitter

A new tool called the Exploring Online Hate dashboard is being used to spot haters on Twitter.

A New Project is Trying to Track Hateful Users’ Activity on Twitter

Worst Digital Cases

Horse Blinders for Humans

Pray you never have to wear these. They’re $250 from Panasonic. Neigh!

Open Offices Have Driven Panasonic to Make Horse Blinders for Humans

Attack Ads For Toddlers

Even if you are a child—say 5 years old—just trying to watch a Hatchimal video on YouTube can require viewing a political attack ad with words not meant for kids.

Why are political attack ads playing before children’s YouTube videos?

Shiny New Stuff

Twitter Influence Score

Determine the true level of influence for any Twitter profile on a scale from 0-100.

SparkScore

Politics

President Obama Debunks 7 Top Excuses for Not Voting

Myth: “My vote doesn’t matter” Obama says “the last election was decided by 100,000 people in 3 states. More people go to Coachella.”

President @BarackObama doesn't have time for these 7 excuses not to vote. pic.twitter.com/2Etpm6taTq

— attn (@attn) October 17, 2018

Ted Cruz’ Facebook Live Goes Hilariously Wrong

Skip ahead to the 10 minute mark…..

https://www.facebook.com/tedcruzpage/videos/734661320231996/

Projects

Beyond Social Media Show on LinkedIn

Dictionary.com Disses 45

You run the country. We still get to say how people capitalize it.https://t.co/n72sYqYTk7 https://t.co/RJ1r1pMsBH

— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) October 19, 2018