Russian Facebook Political Ads & Hurricane Harvey Hoaxes

Beyond Social Media Show - Russian Facebook Ads - Episode 200

Episode 200: Co-hosts B.L. Ochman and David Erickson discuss Facebook’s admission that it ran 3000+ political ads paid for by Kremlin-linked propagandists, the “Calling Bullshit” college course, Values job search, hilarious Trump parodies,draw your search, Cloudvertising, Verizon’s fake unlimited plans, a cultural fit job site, how to have video calls with your cat, an app that turns your phone into a portable podcast studio, social accountability for brands and much, much more.

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Facebook Instant Articles & Meet The Press Charleston Fail

Beyond Social Media - Facebook Instant Articles - Episode 102

Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed Facebook Instant Articles; Meet The Press’ Charleston massacre fail; Amazon’s per-page eBook royalties; influencer marketing; Google News Lab; Google’s news algorithm update; the Time-On-Story metric; Facebook Author Tags; the #SeriousBaby campaign; YouTube’s new player; Google’s artistic cars; Samsung’s see-through trucks; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

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