Summary: Beyond Social Media Show, Episode 168<br> <br> BL and David discuss 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 stats you should know.<br> Worst Digital Cases<br> Google Won’t Alter Holocaust Denier From Top Search Result<br> A post by American Neo-Nazi group, Stormfront, tops the Google search results for “Did the Holocaust Happen?” And Google has done nothing to change that. Should they?<br> <br> * <a href="http://gizmodo.com/google-wont-alter-the-holocaust-denying-results-for-di-1790025043" target="_blank">Gizmodo: Google Won’t Alter Holocaust Denying Results</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Best way to wipe out fake news on "did the holocaust happen?"Authoritative sites need to write "Did the Holocaust Happen? Yes!" stories…<br> — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) <a href="https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/808744276016308224">December 13, 2016</a><br> <br> Google’s Algorithm Unintentionally Rewards Fake News<br> Google’s RankBrain algorithm update in June 2016 may have played a role in the search engine’s inadvertent boosting of fake news stories.<br> <br> * <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/google-algorithm-change-fake-news-rankbrain-2016-12">Google made changes to its search algorithm that unintentionally made it vulnerable to the spread of fake news, sources say</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Graph">Google Knowledge Graph</a><br> <br> Twitter Cut Out of Tech Titans Meeting With Trump Because of Emoji Refusal<br> Twitter was told its co-founder Jack Dorsey was “bounced” from Wednesday’s meeting between top tech executives and President-elect Donald Trump in retribution for refusing to allow an emoji version of the hashtag #CrookedHillary during the contentious 2016 campaign.#Trumplethinskin<br> <br> * <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-twitter-emoji-crooked-hillary-232647" target="_blank">Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal</a><br> <br> <br> Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal<a href="https://t.co/v0PAQNfRsx">https://t.co/v0PAQNfRsx</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/nancyscola">@nancyscola</a><br> — Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hadas_Gold/status/809133632929538048">December 14, 2016</a><br> <br> WTF, Yahoo!?!<br> Yahoo! Can’t seem to keep the virtual doors to its customers’ data locked. They’ve just announced another massive hack affecting one billion customers. The hack occurred three years ago.<br> <br> * <a href="http://fortune.com/2016/12/14/yahoo-discloses-breach-of-another-1-billion-accounts/">Yahoo Discloses Breach of Another 1 Billion Accounts</a><br> * <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161214006239/en/Important-Security-Information-Yahoo-Users">Important Security Information for Yahoo Users</a><br> <br> Dropbox Twitter Diversity BrouHaHa<br> Dropbox posted a photo from its staff Christmas party with 5 white people and one Asian woman. The headline said “Diversity at DropBox“.<br> <br> Our photo doesn’t fully represent the diverse workforce we strive for at Dropbox. Improving our diversity continues to be a top priority. <a href="https://t.co/bxsMi9pwYc">pic.twitter.com/bxsMi9pwYc</a><br> — Dropbox (@Dropbox) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dropbox/status/809165584650813442">December 14, 2016</a><br> <br> <br> Best Digital Cases<br> How to Market Like Santa Claus<br> Ever wonder how Santa Claus got so popular? Marketing, my friends. Santa is a marketing genius. He has to be.
