Summary: Beyond Social Media Show, Episode 167<br> <br> BL and David discuss 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 2016 Christmas ads; the Reuters News Tracer breaking news algorithm; My Starbucks Barista Bot; Google’s emoji-responding Twitter account; Amazon’s new checkout-free store; and much, much more.<br> Worst Digital Cases<br> Facebook’s Fake News Fakeout<br> In a fable for our times, Facebook blocks a fake news blocker. TechCrunch reports on it without checking facts and creates a fake news story.<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/02/facebook-fake-news-flag-techcrunch-bs-detector" target="_blank">Fake news detector for Facebook leads to fake news story about who made it</a><br> <br> The Consequences Of Fake News For Companies<br> The bizarre “Pizzagate” story illustrates the real world consequences of fake news promoted online. The Comet Ping Pong pizzeria had a conspiracy theorist gunman discharge his weapon in the restaurant as he was “self-investigating” a false story he’d read online. How does an innocent company like Comet Ping Pong respond to the new reality of fake news?<br> <br> * <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/7/13870990/pizzagate-robertas-brooklyn-conspiracy-theory">As it spreads online and off, Pizzagate gets weirder and more dangerous</a><br> * <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/pizzagate-comet-ping-pong-edgar-maddison-welch.html">Man Motivated By “Pizzagate” Conspiracy Theory Arrested In Washington Gunfire</a><br> * <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pizzagate-from-rumor-to-hashtag-to-gunfire-in-dc/2016/12/06/4c7def50-bbd4-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html">Pizzagate: From Rumor, To Hashtag, To Gunfire In D.C.</a><br> * <a href="http://www.creativepr.com/fake-news-fallout/">The Fake News Fallout</a><br> <br> <br> Twitter account of seven-year-old Syrian girl documenting horrors of war in Aleppo falls silent and then returns<br> 7 year-old Bana al-Abed, with the help of her mother Fatemah, had been documenting her experience of the war, tweeting as she watched the city she loved being destroyed around her. The account went silent on Dec 5. But it came back on Dec. 7 to say the girl is wounded, but ok.<br> <br> * <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/05/twitter-account-seven-year-old-syrian-girl-documenting-horrors/" target="_blank">Twitter account of seven-year-old Syrian girl documenting horrors of war in Aleppo falls silent</a><br> <br> <br> Good afternoon from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Aleppo?src=hash">#Aleppo</a> I'm reading to forget the war. <a href="https://t.co/Uwsdn0lNGm">pic.twitter.com/Uwsdn0lNGm</a><br> — Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlabedBana/status/780368067675230208">September 26, 2016</a><br> <br> <br> Dear world, we are running out of food, hospitals. Dear world, why are you watching this unmoved? – Bana mom <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Aleppo?src=hash">#Aleppo</a><br> — Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlabedBana/status/781067976623652864">September 28, 2016</a><br> <br> <br> Update on Bana: she's safe <a href="https://t.co/F5tFJSmni1">https://t.co/F5tFJSmni1</a> <a href="https://t.co/c3Bl6eVdJI">https://t.co/c3Bl6eVdJI</a><br> — Sarah Berry (@SarahJ_Berry) <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahJ_Berry/status/805833427144544257">December 5, 2016</a><br> <br> Shreddit<br>
